Predicting asthma morbidity in Harlem emergency department patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 944-950

  Pesola, Gene R ^a,b   Xu, Feng ^a   Ahsan, Habibul ^a   Sternfels, Pamela ^a   Meyer, Ilan H ^a   Ford, Jean G ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b HARLEM HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

African American; asthma morbidity; emergency department; peak expiratory flow; pets and asthma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY WARD; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FLOWMETER; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MORBIDITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; SMOKING HABIT; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ASTHMA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; NEW YORK CITY; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 4344595375     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.03.020     Document Type: Article

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