Patterns and predictors of unplanned hospitalization in a population-based cohort of elderly patients with GI cancer

Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 32, Issue 31, 2014, Pages 3527-3533

  Manzano, Joanna Grace M ^a   Luo, Ruili ^a   Elting, Linda S ^a   George, Marina ^a   Suarez Almazor, Maria E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLACK PERSON; CANCER RISK; CANCER STAGING; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PANCREAS CANCER; PNEUMONIA; POVERTY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STOMACH CANCER; UNPLANNED HOSPITALIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; ALGORITHM; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; LENGTH OF STAY; PATHOLOGY; REGISTER; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL NEOPLASMS; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICARE; NEOPLASM STAGING; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84911915772     PISSN: 0732183X     EISSN: 15277755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1200/JCO.2014.55.3131     Document Type: Article

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