Predictors of six-month mortality among nursing home residents: Diagnoses may be more predictive than functional disability

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 100-106

  Levy, Cari ^a   Kheirbek, Raya ^b,c   Alemi, Farrokh ^b,d   Wojtusiak, Janusz ^d,f   Sutton, Bryce ^a   Williams, Arthur R ^a,e,f   Williams, Allison ^f  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^d GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^f Bay Pines VA Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GOVERNMENT; HOSPICE ELIGIBILITY PREDICTION INDEX; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; NURSING HOME PATIENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VALIDATION PROCESS; VERY ELDERLY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FORECASTING; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOME FOR THE AGED; HOSPICE CARE; LIFE EXPECTANCY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY; VETERAN;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FORECASTING; FRAIL ELDERLY; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HOSPICE CARE; HUMANS; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOMES; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS; VETERANS;

EID: 84921880177     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: 15577740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2014.0130     Document Type: Article

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