Screening elders for risk of hospital admission.

Boult, C; Dowd, B; McCaffrey, D; Boult, L; Hernandez, R; Krulewitch, H

doi:10.1111/j.1532-5415.1993.tb06175.x

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Screening elders for risk of hospital admission.

Published in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society • Aug 1, 1993

Authors:

C Boult

B Dowd

D McCaffrey

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: To define a set of screening criteria that identifies elders who are at high risk for repeated hospital admission in the future. DESIGN: Longitudinal cohort study. Logistic regression analysis of data from half of the subjects was used to identify risk factors for repeated hospital admiss...

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