The incidence and cost of unexpected hospital use after scheduled outpatient endoscopy

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 1752-1757

  Leffler, Daniel A ^a   Kheraj, Rakhi ^a   Garud, Sagar ^a   Neeman, Naama ^a   Nathanson, Larry A ^a   Kelly, Ciaran P ^a   Sawhney, Mandeep ^a   Landon, Bruce ^a,b   Doyle, Richard ^a   Rosenberg, Stanley ^a   Aronson, Mark ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLONOSCOPY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; EMERGENCY WARD; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OUTPATIENT CARE; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCREENING TEST; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

APPOINTMENTS AND SCHEDULES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78049253946     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.373     Document Type: Article

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