Minimum Data Set Changes in Health, End-Stage Disease and Symptoms and Signs Scale: A Revised Measure to Predict Mortality in Nursing Home Residents

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2018, Pages 976-981

  Ogarek, Jessica A ^a   McCreedy, Ellen M ^a   Thomas, Kali S ^a,b   Teno, Joan M ^c   Gozalo, Pedro L ^a,b  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PROVIDENCE VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

frailty; health instability; mortality; nursing home; risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

ADL DISABILITY; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DEATH; DECUBITUS; DEHYDRATION; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPHAGIA; DYSPNEA; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASM; MEDICAID; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SAMPLE SIZE; SYMPTOM; COHORT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH STATUS; NURSING HOME; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (U.S.); COHORT STUDIES; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOMES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85042670139     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.15305     Document Type: Article

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