Activity Limitation Stages Are Associated With Risk of Hospitalization Among Medicare Beneficiaries

PM and R

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2017, Pages 433-443

  Na, Ling ^a   Pan, Qiang ^a   Xie, Dawei ^a   Kurichi, Jibby E ^a   Streim, Joel E ^a   Bogner, Hillary R ^a   Saliba, Debra ^b,c,d   Hennessy, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCONTINENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SMOKING; VERY ELDERLY; AGE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISABILITY; FACTUAL DATABASE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; INDEPENDENT LIVING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; WALKING DIFFICULTY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; MEDICARE; MOBILITY LIMITATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85006064684     PISSN: 19341482     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pmrj.2016.09.008     Document Type: Article

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