Predictors of emergency medical services utilization by elders

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 52-58

  Shah, Manish N ^a,b   Glushak, Cai ^a   Karrison, Theodore G ^a   Mulliken, Robert ^a   Walter, James ^a   Friedmann, Peter D ^a,c   Hayley, Deon Cox ^a   Chin, Marshall H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Emergency medical services; Geriatrics; Health care utilization; Predictors

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STATUS; URBAN AREA;

EID: 0037224536     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.10.1.52     Document Type: Article

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