Predicting mortality of residents at admission to nursing home: a longitudinal cohort study.

• Published in: BMC Health Services Research
• Main Authors: Hjaltadóttir, Ingibjörg, Hallberg, Ingalill Rahm, Ekwall, Anna Kristensson, Nyberg, Per
• Other Authors: Department of Health Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden. [e-mail]
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: BioMed Central 2011
• Subjects: Activities of Daily Living; Aged; 80 and over; Cohort Studies; Female; Health Knowledge; Attitudes; Practice; Health Services; Health Status Indicators; Hospitalization; Humans; Iceland; Interview; Psychological; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Mortality; Nursing Homes; Professional Competence; Statistics as Topic; Time Factors; Meier; Rho
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2336/225678; https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-11-86

To access publisher full text version of this article. Please click on the hyperlink in Additional Links field. BACKGROUND: An increasing numbers of deaths occur in nursing homes. Knowledge of the course of development over the years in death rates and predictors of mortality is important for offici...