Annual Report on Health Care for Children and Youth in the United States: Focus on Injury-Related Emergency Department Utilization and Expenditures

Ambulatory Pediatrics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages

  Owens, Pamela L ^a   Zodet, Marc W ^a   Berdahl, Terceira ^a   Dougherty, Denise ^a   McCormick, Marie C ^a   Simpson, Lisa A ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

Author keywords

emergency department care; expenditures; injury; utilization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BURN; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILDHOOD INJURY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUSH TRAUMA; DISLOCATION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INFANT; INJURY SEVERITY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; NERVE INJURY; OUTPATIENT CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPRAIN; TRAUMATIC AMPUTATION; UNITED STATES; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

EID: 48949118504     PISSN: 15301567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ambp.2008.03.032     Document Type: Article

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