Practice Pattern Variation in the Care of Children with Acute Asthma

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 166-170

  Chamberlain, James M ^a   Teach, Stephen J ^a   Hayes, Katie L ^a   Badolato, Gia ^a   Goyal, Monika K ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DRUG USE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; SCHOOL CHILD; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; ACUTE DISEASE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; ODDS RATIO; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ASTHMA; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84958170397     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/acem.12857     Document Type: Article

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