The borderline between the Emergency Department and hospital admission in the hospital mortality analysis;La frontera entre urgencias y hospitalización en el análisis de la mortalidad hospitalaria

Revista Clinica Espanola

Volumn 199, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 813-816

  Jimenez Puente A ^a   Lopez Mendez J ^b   Lara Blanquer, A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL COSTA DEL SOL   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA VICTORIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Emergency Department; Health care quality; Hospital mortality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; SPAIN; STATISTICS;

AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; SPAIN;

EID: 3042905777     PISSN: 00142565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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