Hospital admissions and MS: Temporal trends and patient characteristics

American Journal of Managed Care

Volumn 18, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 735-742

  Evans, Charity ^a   Kingwell, Elaine ^a   Zhu, Feng ^a   Oger, Joel ^a   Zhao, Yinshan ^a   Tremlett, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE REGISTRY; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; BRITISH COLUMBIA; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS; MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, RELAPSING-REMITTING; PATIENT ADMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84872299255     PISSN: 10880224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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