Against All Advice: An Analysis of Out-of-Hospital Refusals of Care

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 689-696

  Knight, Stacey ^a,c   Olson, Lenora M ^a,b   Cook, Lawrence J ^a   Mann, N Clay ^a,b   Corneli, Howard M ^b   Dean, J Michael ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; REFUSAL OF CARE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0142197081     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0196-0644(03)00524-9     Document Type: Article

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