Prioritizing ambulatory care sensitive hospital admissions in England for research and intervention: A Delphi exercise

Primary Health Care Research and Development

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-50

  Purdy, Sarah ^a   Griffin, Tom ^a   Salisbury, Chris ^a   Sharp, Debbie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Delphi study; hospital admission; prevention; primary health care

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952009712     PISSN: 14634236     EISSN: 14771128     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1463423609990211     Document Type: Article

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