Facility ownership and mortality among older adults residing in care homes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2019, Pages

  Damián, Javier ^a,b   Pastor Barriuso, Roberto ^a,c   García López, Fernando José ^a,b   Ruigómez, Ana ^d   Martínez Martín, Pablo ^a,b   de Pedro Cuesta, Jesús ^a,b  

^a CARLOS III INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED SOBRE ENFERMEDADES NEURODEGENERATIVAS CIBERNED   (Spain)

^c CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

^d Spanish Center for Pharmacoepidemiologic Research ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALL CAUSE MORTALITY; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CAREGIVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDIAN SURVIVAL TIME; MORTALITY RISK; NURSING HOME PATIENT; PROBABILITY; PROFIT; RESIDENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPAIN; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HOME FOR THE AGED; LONG TERM CARE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH FACILITIES, PROPRIETARY; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOMES; OWNERSHIP; SPAIN;

EID: 85062351242     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197789     Document Type: Article

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