Risk factors for hospital admission in the 28 days following a community-acquired pneumonia diagnosis in older adults, and their contribution to increasing hospitalisation rates over time: A cohort study

BMJ Open

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Millett, Elizabeth R C ^a   De Stavola, Bianca L ^a   Quint, Jennifer K ^a   Smeeth, Liam ^a   Thomas, Sara L ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; INFLUENZA VACCINE; PNEUMOCOCCUS VACCINE; STEROID;

AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; DECUBITUS; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALLING; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEMIPLEGIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; INFLUENZA VACCINATION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKEMIA; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPHOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEPTIC ULCER; PRESCRIPTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; TERMINAL DISEASE; UNDERWEIGHT; VACCINATION; VERY ELDERLY; AGE; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PNEUMONIA; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84960365797     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2015-008737     Document Type: Article

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