Factors Related to Hospital Readmission of Elderly Cardiac Patients
- 1 March 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Social Work
- Vol. 31 (2) , 99-103
- https://doi.org/10.1093/sw/31.2.99
Abstract
Elderly patients with cardiac disease are at high risk for physical deterioration during posthospital recovery and suffer frequent early readmission. This study found that mental status and posthospital stress were significantly related to early readmission.Keywords
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