Retention factors for participants of an inner-city community-based asthma intervention study

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 118-125

  Williams, Seymour G ^a   Wharton, Anisha R ^a   Falter, Kenneth H ^a   French, Erin ^a   Redd, Stephen C ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Asthma; Community based; Intervention; Pediatric; Retention

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL STUDY; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEGRO; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATIENT SELECTION; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; PILOT STUDY; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; RANK SUM TEST; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX RATIO; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ASTHMA; CHILD; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GEORGIA; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; TIME FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0037412819     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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