Analyzing Factors Affecting Emergency Department Length of Stay-Using a Competing Risk-Accelerated Failure Time Model

Medicine (United States)

Volumn 95, Issue 14, 2016, Pages

  Chaou, Chung Hsien ^a,b   Chiu, Te Fa ^a   Yen, Amy Ming Fang ^c   Ng, Chip Jin ^a   Chen, Hsiu Hsi ^b  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INJURY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OUT OF HOSPITAL CARDIAC ARREST; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; TIME FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84964608580     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: 15365964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0000000000003263     Document Type: Article

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