Quality of Care of Children in the Emergency Department: Association with Hospital Setting and Physician Training

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 153, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Dharmar, Madan ^a,b   Marcin, James P ^a,b   Romano, Patrick S ^a,b   Andrada, Emily R ^b   Overly, Frank ^c   Valente, Jonathan H ^c   Harvey, Danielle J ^a   Cole, Stacey L ^a   Kuppermann, Nathan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD CARE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CHILDHOOD INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; URBAN AREA;

EID: 56049096498     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2008.05.025     Document Type: Article

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