Measures of acute physiology, comorbidity and functional status to differentiate illness severity and length of stay among acute general medical admissions: A prospective cohort study

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 732-740

  Huggan, P J ^a   Akram, F ^b,c   Er, B H D ^d   Christen, L S J ^c   Weixian, L ^c   Lim, V ^c   Huang, Y ^c   Merchant, R A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HEALTH SYSTEM   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Emergency medicine; Geriatric assessment; Length of stay; Organ dysfunction score

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARTHEL INDEX; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMORBIDITY ASSESSMENT; CONVALESCENCE; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GENERAL PRACTICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DETERIORATION; MIDDLE AGED; MODIFIED EARLY WARNING SCORE; MORTALITY; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGAPORE; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORGAN DYSFUNCTION SCORES; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84933504863     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imj.12795     Document Type: Article

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