Moving to and dying in a nursing home depends not only on health - An analysis of socio-demographic determinants of place of death in Switzerland

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Hedinger, Damian ^a   Braun, Julia ^a   Zellweger, Ueli ^a   Kaplan, Vladimir ^b   Bopp, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b District Hospital Freiamt Muri   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; DYING; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; PREDICTION; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL STATUS; SWISS; SWITZERLAND; DEATH; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOME FOR THE AGED; RISK FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

AGED; DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NURSING HOMES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84912034514     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113236     Document Type: Article

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