Multicenter validation of the Philadelphia EMS admission rule (PEAR) to predict hospital admission in adult patients using out-of-hospital data

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 519-525

  Meisel, Zachary F ^a   Mathew, Rex ^b   Wydro, Gerald C ^c   Mechem, C Crawford ^a   Pollack, Charles V ^d   Katzer, Robert ^c   Prabhu, Anjeli ^e   Ozumba, Adora ^b   Pines, Jesse M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TEMPLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambulance diversion; Emergency medical services; Prediction rule; Prehospital care; Resource utilization; Triage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIZZINESS; DYSPNEA; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEOPLASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SYNCOPE; THORAX PAIN; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VALIDATION STUDY; WEAKNESS;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PHILADELPHIA; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 67149108153     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00422.x     Document Type: Article

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