Hospitalar costs of acute headaches in a Brazilian public emergency room unit;Custos hospitalares das cefaléias agudas em uma unidade de emergência pública Brasileira

Arquivos de Neuro-Psiquiatria

Volumn 58, Issue 3 A, 2000, Pages 664-670

  Bigal, Marcelo E ^b   Fernandes, Luciana C ^b   Bordini, Carlos A ^b   Speciali, José G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Costs; Emergency room unit; Headache

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CHILD; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRAZIL; CHILD; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEADACHE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0034264326     PISSN: 0004282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-282x2000000400011     Document Type: Article

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