Acute asthma among adults presenting to the emergency department: The role of race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status

Chest

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 803-812

  Boudreaux, Edwin D ^a   Emond, Stephen D ^b   Clark, Sunday ^c   Cawargo Jr , Carlos A ^c  

^a Department of Anesthesiology   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adults; Asthma; Ethnicity; Quality of care; Race; Socioeconomic status

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTICENTER STUDY; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RACE DIFFERENCE; RESPIRATORY DISTRESS; SOCIAL STATUS; STANDARDIZATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 0141782134     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.124.3.803     Document Type: Article

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