Trends in hospital and intensive care admissions in the Netherlands attributable to the very elderly in an ageing population

Critical Care

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Haas, Lenneke E M ^a   Karakus, Attila ^a   Holman, Rebecca ^b,c   Cihangir, Sezgin ^d   Reidinga, Auke C ^b,e   de Keizer, Nicolette F ^b,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF SURGERY   (Netherlands)

^b NICE foundation   (Netherlands)

^c ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d Dutch Hospital Data   (Netherlands)

^e MARTINI HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT DURATION; TREND STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITALIZATION; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT ADMISSION;

EID: 84956742200     PISSN: 13648535     EISSN: 1466609X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13054-015-1061-z     Document Type: Article

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