Reattendance at hospital for asthma in two Australian states, 2000-2003

Respirology

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 220-226

  Correll, Patricia K ^a   Xuan, Wei ^a   Williamson, Margaret ^a   Sundararajan, Vijaya ^b   Ringland, Clare ^c   Marks, Guy B ^a  

^a WOOLCOCK INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Australia)

^b New South Wales Government   (Australia)

^c Victorian Department of Human Services   (Australia)

Author keywords

Asthma; Hospitalization; Medical record linkage; Patient readmission; Quality of health care; Risk factor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CONTROL; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASTHMA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; PATIENT READMISSION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; VICTORIA;

EID: 33846932999     PISSN: 13237799     EISSN: 14401843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2006.01039.x     Document Type: Article

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