Patterns of visits to hospital-based emergency rooms

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 165-179

  Béland, François ^a   Lemay, Anne ^a   Boucher, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ecological factors; Emergency; Hospital resources; Individual factors; Medical resources; Urilization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EMERGENCY WARD; FIRST AID; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; OUTPATIENT; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; ECOLOGY; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUEBEC; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0344835831     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(98)00029-X     Document Type: Article

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