Rising annual costs of dizziness presentations to U.S. emergency departments

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 689-696

  Saber Tehrani, Ali S ^a   Coughlan, Diarmuid ^b   Hsieh, Yu Hsiang ^a   Mantokoudis, Georgios ^a   Korley, Fredrick K ^a   Kerber, Kevin A ^c   Frick, Kevin D ^b   Newman Toker, David E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASE; COST CONTROL; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; DIZZINESS; EAR DISEASE; EMERGENCY WARD; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEMATOLOGIC DISEASE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INJURY; INTOXICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; METABOLIC DISORDER; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NEOPLASM; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARASITOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SKIN DISEASE; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; UNITED STATES; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VERTIGO; VESTIBULAR DISORDER;

ADULT; AGED; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIZZINESS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES; VERTIGO;

EID: 84880252210     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12168     Document Type: Article

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