Inpatient admissions and costs of congenital heart disease from adolescence to young adulthood

American Heart Journal

Volumn 168, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 948-955

  Lu, Yang ^a   Agrawal, Garima ^b   Lin, Chia Wei ^b   Williams, Roberta G ^b,c  

^a HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HISTORY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; CLINICAL PRACTICE; ECONOMICS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITAL CHARGE; INSURANCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CALIFORNIA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITAL CHARGES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INSURANCE COVERAGE; MALE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84912520761     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2014.08.006     Document Type: Article

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