Missing the boat: Odds for the patients who leave ED without being seen

BMC Emergency Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Fayyaz, Jabeen ^a   Khursheed, Munawar ^a   Mir, Mohammed Umer ^a   Mehmood, Amber ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NIGHT SHIFT; PAKISTAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; CROWDING; MIDDLE AGED; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT; PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROWDING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PAKISTAN; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PERSONNEL STAFFING AND SCHEDULING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TRIAGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84872193196     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471227X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-227x-13-1     Document Type: Article

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