Unscheduled return visits to the pediatric emergency department - One-year experience

Pediatric Emergency Care

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 545-549

  Goldman, Ran D ^a   Ong, Michael ^a   Macpherson, Alison ^b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Health care; Revisit

Indexed keywords

CHILD; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PEDIATRICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PEDIATRICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33747517887     PISSN: 07495161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pec.0000230553.01917.05     Document Type: Review

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