National profile of nonemergent pediatric emergency department visits

Pediatrics

Volumn 125, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 454-459

  Ben Isaac, Eyal ^a   Schrager, Sheree M ^b   Keefer, Matthew ^a   Chen, Alex Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

ED; Emergency department; Medical expenditure panel survey; Nonemergent conditions

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; EMERGENCY WARD; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; EUROPEAN AMERICAN; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH INSURANCE; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INFANT; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; PEDIATRIC WARD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PEDIATRICS;

EID: 77649090627     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2009-0544     Document Type: Article

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