Congestive cardiac failure: Urban and rural perspectives in Victoria

Australian Journal of Rural Health

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 266-270

  Ansari, Mohammad Z ^a   Henderson, Toni ^a   Ackland, Michael ^a   Cicuttini, Flavia ^a   Sundararajan, Vijaya ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Access; Ambulatory care sensitive conditions; Interventions; Preventable hospitalisations; Primary care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; URBAN POPULATION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SMALL-AREA ANALYSIS; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES; VICTORIA;

EID: 1642546243     PISSN: 10385282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2003.00532.x     Document Type: Article

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