Clinical and economic burden of emergency department visits due to gastrointestinal diseases in the United States

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 108, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1496-1507

  Myer, Parvathi A ^a   Mannalithara, Ajitha ^a   Singh, Gurjot ^b   Singh, Gurkirpal ^a,b   Pasricha, Pankaj J ^a   Ladabaum, Uri ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Institute of Clinical Outcomes Research and Education   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIA; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANGIODYSPLASIA; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHILD; COLON DISEASE; COLON PERFORATION; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; DIVERTICULOSIS; DUODENITIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; GALLSTONE; GASTRITIS; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GASTROINTESTINAL INFECTION; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; ILEUS; INFANT; INTESTINE FISTULA; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; INTESTINE ULCER; INTESTINE VOLVULUS; INTUSSUSCEPTION; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; NAUSEA AND VOMITING; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PANCREATITIS; PERITONITIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REFERENCE DATABASE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMALL INTESTINE DISEASE; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84883744341     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: 15720241     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ajg.2013.199     Document Type: Article

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