Clinical and Economic Factors Associated with Ambulance Use to the Emergency Department

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 879-885

  Ruger, Jennifer Prah ^a   Richter, Christopher J ^a   Lewis, Lawrence M ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cost; emergency department; insurance status; mode of arrival; outcomes; utilization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GUNSHOT INJURY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OPERATING ROOM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STAB WOUND; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AMBULANCES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 33746261440     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.04.006     Document Type: Article

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