Are immigrant children admitted to intensive care at increased risk?

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 141, Issue APRIL, 2011, Pages

  Tritschler, Tobias ^a   Sennhauser, Felix H ^a   Frey, Bernhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Children; Immigrants; Intensive care; Mortality; Severity of illness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RACE DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CLASS; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; SWITZERLAND; ADOLESCENT; ETHNOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; INFANT; MIGRATION; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS, PEDIATRIC; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 79955815192     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2011.13190     Document Type: Article

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