Potentially avoidable hospital admissions in Germany: An analysis of factors influencing rates of ambulatory care sensitive hospitalizations;Potenziell vermeidbare krankenhausfälle in Deutschland: Analyse von einflussfaktoren auf die raten ambulant-sensitiver krankenhauseinweisungen

Deutsches Arzteblatt International

Volumn 111, Issue 13, 2014, Pages 215-223

  Burgdorf, Friederike ^a   Sundmacher, Leonie ^b  

^a Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; RURAL AREA; UNEMPLOYMENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX RATIO; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURE; UTILIZATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY CARE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES; UTILIZATION REVIEW; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899507707     PISSN: 18660452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2014.0215     Document Type: Article

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