Outpatient visits for infectious diseases in the United States, 1980 through 1996

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 159, Issue 21, 1999, Pages 2531-2536

  Armstrong, Gregory L ^a,b,c   Pinner, Robert W ^a  

^a NATL CENTER FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

^b National Foundation for Infectious Diseases   (United States)

^c Mailstop G 37 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFECTION; LOWER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; OTITIS; OUTPATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OFFICE VISITS; OUTPATIENTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0033596070     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.159.21.2531     Document Type: Article

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