Identifying patients at high risk of emergency hospital admissions: A logistic regression analysis

Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine

Volumn 99, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 406-414

  Bottle, Alex ^a   Aylin, Paul ^a   Majeed, Azeem ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MODEL; PATIENT IDENTIFICATION; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT PLANNING; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 33748653578     PISSN: 01410768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/jrsm.99.8.406     Document Type: Article

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