Factors associated with patients who leave without being seen

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 232-236

  Polevoi, Steven K ^a   Quinn, James V ^b   Kramer, Nathan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Administration; Emergency department; Leave without being seen; Quality indicators

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH VISITOR; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MCNEMAR TEST; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; WILCOXON SIGNED RANKS TEST;

EID: 13844271192     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.10.029     Document Type: Article

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