Who uses emergency departments inappropriately and when - a national cross-sectional study using a monitoring data system

BMC Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  McHale, Philip ^a   Wood, Sara ^a   Hughes, Karen ^a   Bellis, Mark A ^a,b   Demnitz, Ulf ^c   Wyke, Sacha ^d  

^a LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL LIVERPOOL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Emergency department; Health service use; Inappropriate attendance

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INAPPROPRIATE ATTENDANCE; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LEISURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITY CONTROL; SCHOOL CHILD; SELF CONCEPT; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889991335     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17417015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1741-7015-11-258     Document Type: Article

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