Patient returns to the emergency department: The time-to-return curve

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 864-871

  Rising, Kristin L ^a   Victor, Timothy W ^b,c   Hollander, Judd E ^a   Carr, Brendan G ^b  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c KANTAR HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEBRASKA; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906301567     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12442     Document Type: Article

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