Hospital emergency department utilisation rates among the immigrant population in Barcelona, Spain

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Buron, Andrea ^a,b,c   Cots, Francesc ^a   Garcia, Oscar ^a,c   Vall, Oriol ^a,c   Castells, Xavier ^a,c  

^a HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^b Del Mar University   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPAIN; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPAIN; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 42449109173     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-51     Document Type: Article

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