Demographic and treatment patterns for infections in ambulatory settings in the United states, 2006-2010

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 17-24

  May, Larissa ^a,b   Mullins, Peter ^a   Pines, Jesse ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NARCOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PATIENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT; OUTPATIENT CARE; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN INFECTION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; UNITED STATES; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AMBULATORY CARE; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEALTH RESOURCES; HUMANS; INSURANCE, HEALTH; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SKIN DISEASES, INFECTIOUS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; UNITED STATES; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84891876053     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12287     Document Type: Article

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