Defining emergency department episodes by severity and intensity: A 15-year study of Medicare beneficiaries

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Kaskie, Brian ^a   Obrizan, Maksym ^b   Cook, Elizabeth A ^a   Jones, Michael P ^a,c   Liu, Li ^a   Bentler, Suzanne ^a   Wallace, Robert B ^a,f   Geweke, John F ^d   Wright, Kara B ^a   Chrischilles, Elizabeth A ^a   Pavlik, Claire E ^e   Ohsfeldt, Robert L ^f   Rosenthal, Gary E ^a,c,g   Wolinsky, Fredric D ^a,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Kyiv School of Economics Ukraine   (Ukraine)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e University of Iowa   (United States)

^f TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INSURANCE; MEDICARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MEDICARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77953663201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-10-173     Document Type: Article

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