Neighborhood characteristics and emergency department utilization

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 853-859

  Li, Guohua ^a   Grabowski, Jurek G ^b   McCarthy, Melissa L ^b   Kelen, Gabor D ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Emergency medicine; Environmental factors; Epidemiology; Health services; Medical geography; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; CONSULTATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOUSING; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0042130543     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.10.8.853     Document Type: Article

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