Hospitalized older adult: predictors of functional decline
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Risk factors predicting later functional decline in older hospitalized patients.
With the demographic and epidemiological changes, an increasing number of older subjects are admitted to hospital. These patients are at increased risk of adverse health outcomes, including functional decline, increased length of stay, institutionalization, geriatric syndromes (e.g. delirium), hospital readmissions and death. Age, basic demographic data, diagnosis and comorbidities are not suff...
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عنوان ژورنال: Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
سال: 2021
ISSN: 1518-8345
DOI: 10.1590/1518-8345.3612.3399