Pediatric acute sinusitis: Predictors of increased resource utilization

Laryngoscope

Volumn 120, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2313-2321

  Dugar, Deepak R ^a   Lander, Lina ^b   Mahalingam Dhingra, Aditya ^c   Shah, Rahul K ^d  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cost; endoscopic sinus surgery; Paranasal sinus; resource utilization; sinusitis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE SINUSITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; DATA BASE; ENDOSCOPIC SINUS SURGERY; EYE SURGERY; FEMALE; FRONTAL SINUSITIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LENGTH OF STAY; LUMBAR PUNCTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXILLA SINUSITIS; MAXILLARY SINUS; MEDICAID; ORBIT DISEASE; OTITIS MEDIA; PARANASAL SINUS; PARANASAL SINUSITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH SERVICES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH RESOURCES; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SINUSITIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78349274347     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lary.21152     Document Type: Article

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