Factors associated with length of stay following an emergency medical admission

European Journal of Internal Medicine

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 237-242

  Cournane, Seán ^a   Byrne, Declan ^a   O'Riordan, Deirdre ^a   Silke, Bernard ^a  

^a ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Acute medicine; Length of stay; Predictors

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ILLNESS SEVERITY SCORE; ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CHRONIC DISABLING DISEASE SCORE; CONSULTANT EXPERIENCE AND NURSING HOME RESIDENCY; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FEMININITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DISEASE GROUPS OF CARDIOVASCULAR NEUROLOGICAL AND GASTROENTEROLOGY; MALE; MANCHESTER TRIAGE CATEGORY; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPSIS CATEGORY; TIME; AGED; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; IRELAND; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; AGED; COMORBIDITY; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRELAND; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84928823649     PISSN: 09536205     EISSN: 18790828     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejim.2015.02.017     Document Type: Article

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