Trends and patterns of avoidable hospitalisations in New Zealand: 1980-1997

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 117, Issue 1198, 2004, Pages

  Dharmalingam, Arunachalam ^a   Pool, Ian ^a   Baxendine, Sandra ^a   Sceats, Janet ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b Portal Consulting and Associates   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; APPENDIX PERFORATION; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CELLULITIS; CHILD; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GANGRENE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; KIDNEY INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT HYPERTENSION; NEW ZEALAND; PEPTIC ULCER BLEEDING; PNEUMONIA; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; ULCER PERFORATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HISTORY; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE REFORM; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 6944253532     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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