Aboriginal versus non-Aboriginal ophthalmic disease: Admission characteristics at the Royal Adelaide Hospital

Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 324-328

  Laforest, Caroline ^a   Durkin, Shane ^a   Selva, Dinesh ^a,b   Casson, Robert ^a,b   Newland, Henry ^a  

^a ROYAL ADELAIDE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aboriginal patients; Hospitalization; Length of stay; Ophthalmology

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; AGE; AMBULATORY SURGERY; AUSTRALIA; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EYE DISEASE; EYELID DISEASE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW;

EYE DISEASES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL UNITS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORTHERN TERRITORY; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; OPHTHALMOLOGY; PATIENT ADMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AUSTRALIA;

EID: 33746486725     PISSN: 14426404     EISSN: 14429071     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9071.2006.01218.x     Document Type: Review

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