The crucial factor of hospital readmissions: A retrospective cohort study of patients evaluated in the emergency department and admitted to the department of medicine of a general hospital in Italy

European Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Fabbian, Fabio ^a,b   Boccafogli, Arrigo ^a,b   De Giorgi, Alfredo ^a,b   Pala, Marco ^a,b   Salmi, Raffaella ^b   Melandri, Roberto ^b   Gallerani, Massimo ^b   Gardini, Andrea ^c   Rinaldi, Gabriele ^c   Manfredini, Roberto ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c UO di Neurologia Dipartimento Neuroscienze Riabilitazione AOU di Ferrara   (Italy)

Author keywords

Comorbidity; Hospitalization; Internal medicine; Length of stay; Mortality; Readmission

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; ITALIAN (CITIZEN); KIDNEY DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; ITALY; LUNG DISEASES; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84988695773     PISSN: 09492321     EISSN: 2047783X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40001-014-0081-5     Document Type: Article

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