Characteristics of patients returning to emergency departments in Naples, Italy

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Di Giuseppe, Gabriella ^a   Abbate, Rossella ^a   Albano, Luciana ^a   Marinelli, Paolo ^a   Angelillo, Italo F ^a   Albano, Annunziata ^b   Di Mauro, Maurizio ^c   Stingone, Maria Anna ^d  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b Hospital S Maria Della Pieta   (Italy)

^c San Giovanni Bosco Hospital   (Italy)

^d Ospedale Evangelico Betania   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RANDOMIZATION; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; TRAVEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TRAVEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 44849132793     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-8-97     Document Type: Article

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