Effect of emergency department crowding on pneumonia admission care components

American Journal of Managed Care

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 269-278

  Fee, Christopher ^a   Weber, Ellen J ^a   Bacchetti, Peter ^a   Maak, Carley A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA MASON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CROWDING; DATA EXTRACTION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NURSE PATIENT RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BED OCCUPANCY; CHILD; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; CROWDING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79960284831     PISSN: 10880224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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