Can mortality rates for patients who die within the emergency department, within 30 days of discharge from the emergency department, or within 30 days of admission from the emergency department be easily measured?

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 601-603

  Baker, Matt ^a   Clancy, M ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AUTOPSY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEATH CERTIFICATES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY;

EID: 33748039077     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2005.028134     Document Type: Article

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