Organisational characteristics of primary care and hospitalisation due to the main ambulatory care sensitive conditions;Características organizativas de la atención primaria y hospitalización por los principales ambulatory core sensitive conditions

Atencion Primaria

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 305-311

  Bermúdez Tamayo, Clara ^a   Marquez Calderon S ^a   Rodriguez Del Aguila M M ^b   Perea Milla Lopez E ^c   Ortiz Espinosa, J ^d  

^a ANDALUSIAN SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LAS NIEVES   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL COSTA DEL SOL   (Spain)

^d Distrito Sanitario Granada   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ambulatory care sensitive conditions; Health service research; Hospitalisation; Primary cure

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; GENDER; GEOGRAPHY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 2442663913     PISSN: 02126567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13059762     Document Type: Article

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