Deaths in hospital emergency departments in Andalusia: Patient characteristics;Características demográficas de la mortalidad en los servicios de urgencias hospitalarios de Andalucía

Emergencias

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 109-113

  Ruiz Ramos, Miguel ^a   García León, Francisco Javier ^a   López Campos, José Luis ^b,c  

^a Servicio de Información y Evaluación Consejería de Salud de Andalucía   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

Author keywords

Andalusia; Causality; Death; Hospital emergency health services; Spain

Indexed keywords

EID: 84900342509     PISSN: 11376821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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