Authors
Susan E Campbell, D Gwyn Seymour, William R Primrose, Joanna E Lynch, Edmund Dunstan, Mireia Espallargues, Giovanni Lamura, Peter Lawson, Ian Philp, Elizabeth Mestheneos, Barbara Politynska, Ismo Raiha
Publication date
2005/9/1
Journal
Age and ageing
Volume
34
Issue
5
Pages
467-475
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Description
Objectives: to examine the relationship between seven predictor variables (recorded on Day 3 of hospital admission) and discharge destination in non-elective medical patients aged 65+ years.
Design: prospective cohort.
Setting: eight centres in six European countries.
Predictor variables: age, gender, living alone, physical function (three categories based on Barthel Index), cognition (Katzman’s orientation–memory–concentration test), main body system affected (based on International Classification of Diseases), number of geriatric giants (GGs) involved in the referral (a GG being a problem with falling, mobility, continence or cognition).
Main outcome measures: discharge destination (by Day 90) in three categories: ‘HOMESAME’ (return to previous residence), ‘INSTIN90’ (discharge to alternative residence or still in hospital at 90 days), ‘DEADINHO’ (death in …
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