Short stay emergency admissions to a West Midlands NHS Trust: A longitudinal descriptive study, 2002-2005

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 553-557

  Sibly, E ^a   Wiskin, C M ^a   Holder, R L ^a   Cooke, Matthew W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; WINTER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT ADMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 34547569036     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2006.043901     Document Type: Article

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