Socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of re-presentation to an Australian inner-city emergency department: Implications for service delivery

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Moore, Gaye ^a,b   Gerdtz, Marie ^a   Manias, Elizabeth ^a   Hepworth, Graham ^a   Dent, Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOMELESSNESS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RESIDENTIAL CARE; RESIDENTIAL HOME; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; AUSTRALIA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL READMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; AGED; AUSTRALIA; COHORT STUDIES; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT READMISSION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 38849091308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-320     Document Type: Article

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