Ten years of asthma admissions to adult critical care units in England and Wales

BMJ Open

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Gibbison, Ben ^a   Griggs, Kathryn ^b   Mukherjee, Mome ^c   Sheikh, Aziz ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS BRISTOL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b and London School of Hygiene Tropical Medicine   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SECONDARY HEALTH CARE; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM; VENTILATED PATIENT;

EID: 84885357172     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20446055     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003420     Document Type: Article

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