The role of health and non-health-related factors in repeat emergency department visits in an elderly urban population

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 683-687

  Naughton, Corina ^a   Drennan, Jonathan ^a   Treacy, Pearl ^a   Fealy, Gerard ^a   Kilkenny, Margaret ^a   Johnson, Felicity ^a   Butler, Michelle ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; URBAN POPULATION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; IRELAND; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT READMISSION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 77956202702     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.2009.077917     Document Type: Article

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