Emergency medical readmission: Long-term trends and impact on mortality

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 114-118

  Glynn, Nigel ^a   Bennett, Kathleen ^a   Silke, Bernard ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Hospital mortality; Length of stay; Medical admission; Readmission

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; TREND STUDY; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HOSPITALIZATION; IRELAND; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; IRELAND; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 79958151229     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: 14734893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.11-2-114     Document Type: Article

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