Unwinding Ariadne's thread: Some methodological and interpretative considerations on international hospital admission comparisons, with special reference to cancer

Anticancer Research

Volumn 19, Issue 2 B, 1999, Pages 1411-1418

  Lionis, Christos ^a   Faresjö, Tomas ^b   Koutis, Antonis ^a   Fioretos, Michael ^a   Trell, Erik ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Cancer; Comparative study; Crete; Diagnoses; Greece; Health; Hospital admission; Methodology; Morbidity; Population diseases; Sweden

Indexed keywords

CANCER; CANCER CLASSIFICATION; CANCER INCIDENCE; DEMOGRAPHY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ACCIDENTS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH SERVICES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ADMISSION; RURAL HEALTH; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 0032995493     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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