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Avoidable visits to the emergency department(ED) and their association with sex, age and race in a cohort of low socio-economic status patients on hemodialysis in the Bronx

BACKGROUND: In national samples drawn from the USRDS, female patients utilize the hospital ED and inpatient services at a higher rate than their male counterparts and have a higher rate of re-hospitalization. We wanted to explore the association of sex with avoidable ED visits made by a cohort of pa...

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Autores principales: Golestaneh, Ladan, Bellin, Eran, Neugarten, Joel, Lo, Yungtai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6108498/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30142175
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202697