Emergency admissions for coronary heart disease: A cross-sectional study of general practice, population and hospital factors in England

Public Health

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 46-54

  Purdy, S ^a   Griffin, T ^a   Salisbury, C ^a   Sharp, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; General practice; Hospitalization; Quality of health care

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR;

ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CONFOUNDING VARIABLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; SMOKING; SOCIAL STATUS; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; POVERTY AREAS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

ENGLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANGINA;

EID: 78751566569     PISSN: 00333506     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.puhe.2010.07.006     Document Type: Article

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