Exploring patterns of health service use in older emergency department patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1086-1092

  Nicole Hastings, S ^a,b,d   Horney, Carolyn ^b   Landerman, Lawrence R ^d   Sanders, Linda L ^a   Hocker, Michael B ^c   Schmader, Kenneth E ^a,b,d  

^a DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Division of Geriatrics   (United States)

^c Plastic Surgery   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

health care use; latent cluster analysis; older adults

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PREDICTION; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT READMISSION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 78649476634     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00870.x     Document Type: Article

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