Factors Associated With Emergency Department Visits
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Factors associated with emergency department visits due to acute asthma.
It is important to identify characteristics related to poor disease control and frequent visits to the emergency department (ED). The objective of the present study was to compare the characteristics of patients attending the adult ED for treatment of asthma exacerbation with those attending an asthma specialist clinic (AC) in the same hospital, and to determine the factors associated with freq...
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عنوان ژورنال: Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2333-3928,2333-3928
DOI: 10.1177/2333392816648549