Indications for hospitalization and in-hospital mortality in Thai systemic sclerosis

Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 361-367

  Netwijitpan, Sittichai ^a   Foocharoen, Chingching ^a   Mahakkanukrauh, Ajanee ^a   Suwannaroj, Siraphop ^a   Nanagara, Ratanavadee ^a  

^a KHON KAEN UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Cause of death; Hospitalization; Length of stay; Mortality; Scleroderma; Systemic sclerosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROLYTE DISTURBANCE; ENTEROPATHY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFECTION; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; SYSTEMIC SCLEROSIS; THAILAND;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SCLERODERMA, SYSTEMIC; THAILAND;

EID: 84876681532     PISSN: 07703198     EISSN: 14349949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10067-012-2131-0     Document Type: Article

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