Predictors of On-call Specialist Response Times in California Emergency Departments

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 505-512

  Mohanty, Sarita A ^a   Washington, Donna L ^a   Lambe, Susan ^a   Fink, Arlene ^a   Asch, Steven M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency department; health services research; on call specialist

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY WARD; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL; TELEPHONE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL; MEDICINE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

CALIFORNIA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; LOGISTIC MODELS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SPECIALTIES, MEDICAL; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TELEPHONE; TIME; TRAUMA CENTERS; WAITING LISTS;

EID: 33746394722     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2005.12.018     Document Type: Article

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