Is Emergency Department length of stay associated with inpatient mortality?

Australasian Journal on Ageing

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 122-124

  Chong, Carol P ^a,b,c   Haywood, Cilla ^a,b,c   Barker, Anna ^a,d   Lim, Wen Kwang ^a,b,c  

^a Northern Hospital   (United Kingdom)

^b Department of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Emergency Department; Length of stay; Mortality

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; VERY ELDERLY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; VICTORIA; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879419627     PISSN: 14406381     EISSN: 17416612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-6612.2012.00651.x     Document Type: Article

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