Soft tissue infections and emergency department disposition: Predicting the need for inpatient admission

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1290-1297

  Sabbaj, Alfredo ^a   Jensen, Brett ^b   Browning, Mary Ann ^a   Ma, O John ^a   Newgard, Craig D ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Southwest Washington Medical Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellulitis; Fever; Length of stay; Observation unit; Soft tissue infection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEVER; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; ODDS RATIO; OREGON; PATIENT ADMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS;

EID: 71549114560     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00536.x     Document Type: Article

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