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Voting with their feet - predictors of discharge against medical advice in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal ischaemic heart disease inpatients in Western Australia: an analytic study using data linkage

BACKGROUND: Discharge Against Medical Advice (DAMA) from hospital is associated with adverse outcomes and is considered an indicator of the responsiveness of hospitals to the needs of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, the indigenous people of Australia. We investigated demographic a...

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Autores principales: Katzenellenbogen, Judith M, Sanfilippo, Frank M, Hobbs, Michael ST, Knuiman, Matthew W, Bessarab, Dawn, Durey, Angela, Thompson, Sandra C
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3765140/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23962275
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-330