Patterns of hospital admissions and emergency room visits among patients with scleroderma in South Carolina, USA

Journal of Rheumatology

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1238-1243

  Nietert, Paul J ^a   Silver, Richard M ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Health Services Research; Hospital Emergency Service; Hospitalization; Socioeconomic Factors; Systemic Scleroderma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENDER; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCOME; INFANT; INSURANCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SCLERODERMA; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOUTH CAROLINA;

EID: 0037981280     PISSN: 0315162X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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