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Does a hospital admission in old age denote the beginning of life with a compromised health-related quality of life? A longitudinal study of men and women aged 65 years and above participating in the Stockholm Public Health Cohort

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to analyse how hospitalisation after the age of 60 affected individuals' health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The main hypothesis was that a hospital admission in old age can be seen as a proxy of ill health and possibly as a health divider, separa...

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Autores principales: Karampampa, Korinna, Frumento, Paolo, Ahlbom, Anders, Modig, Karin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4947764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27401358
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2015-010901