Mortality in a cohort of complex patients with chronic illnesses and multimorbidity: A descriptive longitudinal study

BMC Palliative Care

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Martin Lesende I ^a   Recalde, E ^b   Viviane Wunderling, P ^a   Pinar, T ^a   Borghesi, F ^a   Aguirre, T ^a   Recio, M ^a   Martínez, Me ^a   Asua, J ^c  

^a Centro de Salud de San Ignacio Health Centre   (Spain)

^b Basque Health Service (Osakidetza)   (Spain)

^c Basque Office for Health Technology Assessment (Osteba)   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chronic diseases; Chronic lung disease; Elderly; Heart failure; Hospital admissions; Mortality; Primary care; Telemonitoring

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; QUALITY OF LIFE; TELEMONITORING; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISEASE COURSE; HOSPITALIZATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TELEMETRY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; QUALITY OF LIFE; TELEMETRY;

EID: 84963812614     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12904-016-0111-x     Document Type: Article

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