Quick diagnosis units or conventional hospitalisation for the diagnostic evaluation of severe anaemia: A paradigm shift in public health systems?

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 159-164

  Bosch, Xavier ^a   Palacios, Frank ^b   Inclán Iríbar, Gabriel ^c   Castañeda, Marta ^a   Jordán, Anna ^a   Moreno, Pedro ^a   Coca, Antonio ^a   López Soto, Alfonso ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b Primary Healthcare Centre les Corts   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL DE CRUCES   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Cancer; Diagnosis; Healthcare; Outpatients

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOLYTIC ANEMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL SUBDIVISIONS AND COMPONENTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEGALOBLASTIC ANEMIA; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUICK DIAGNOSIS UNIT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPAIN; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUBLIC HEALTH; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPAIN;

EID: 84856456368     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: 18790828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2011.02.013     Document Type: Article

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