Follow-up to a federally qualified health center and subsequent emergency department utilization

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 55-62

  Scherer, Tara M ^a   Lewis, Lawrence M ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Access; Emergency department; Federally qualified health clinic; Follow up; Referral; Utilization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH CENTER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 75449115785     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2009.00621.x     Document Type: Article

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