Emergency department overcrowding: Quantification of associated factors;Saturación del servicio de urgencias: Factores asociados y cuantificación

Medicina Clinica

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 167-172

  Sánchez, Miquel ^a   Miró, Òscar ^a   Coll Vinent, Blanca ^a   Bragulat, Ernest ^a   Espinosa, Gerard ^a   Gómez Angelats, Elisenda ^a   Jiménez, Sònia ^a   Queralt, Carme ^a   Hernández Rodríguez, Josep ^a   Alonso, Josep R ^a   Millá, Joseé ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Emergency service; Overcrowing; Regression analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; RANDOMIZATION; RECORDING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VALIDATION PROCESS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPAIN; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPAIN;

EID: 0043066635     PISSN: 00257753     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0025-7753(03)73892-5     Document Type: Article

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