Relationship between travel time to the nearest hospital and survival from ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms: Record linkage study

Journal of Public Health

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 165-170

  De Souza, Veena C ^a,b   Strachan, David P ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Public Health Training Office   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aneurysms; Rupture; Survival; Time factors

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TIME; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; META-ANALYSIS; REGIONAL HEALTH PLANNING; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; STATE MEDICINE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL;

EID: 21644458899     PISSN: 17413842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fdi001     Document Type: Article

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