Safety and cost savings of reducing adult dengue hospitalization in a tertiary care hospital in Singapore

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 107, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 37-42

  Lee, Linda K ^a   Earnest, Arul ^b   Carrasco, Luis R ^c   Thein, Tun L ^a   Gan, Victor C ^a   Lee, Vernon J ^d   Lye, David C ^a,d   Leo, Yee Sin ^a,d  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b DUKE NUS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Singapore)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Admission criteria; Arbovirus; Dengue hemorrhagic fever; Singapore; Triage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DENGUE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; SINGAPORE; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE COST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DENGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT ADMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SINGAPORE; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; TRIAGE;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84880472728     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/trs009     Document Type: Article

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