Factors Associated with Hospital Admission among Emergency Department Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 6-14

  Tsai, Chu Lin ^a   Clark, Sunday ^a   Cydulka, Rita K ^a   Rowe, Brian H ^a   Camargo Jr , Carlos A ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

admission; chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; emergency department; exacerbation

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CANADA; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SELF REPORT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

AGED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 33845759357     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2006.07.034     Document Type: Article

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