Favorable bed utilization and readmission rates for emergency department observation unit heart failure patients

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 554-561

  Schrager, Justin ^a   Wheatley, Matthew ^a   Georgiopoulou, Vasiliki ^a   Osborne, Anwar ^a   Kalogeropoulos, Andreas ^a   Hung, Olivia ^a   Butler, Javed ^a   Ross, Michael ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; CREATININE;

ACUTE HEART FAILURE; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATION UNIT; POPULATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RACE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84879025735     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12147     Document Type: Article

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