Comparison of Canadian versus United States Emergency Department Visits for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation

Brian H Rowe; Rita K Cydulka; Chu-Lin Tsai; Sunday Clark; Douglas Sinclair; Carlos A Camargo

doi:10.1155/2008/696482

Canadian Respiratory Journal (Jan 2008)

Comparison of Canadian versus United States Emergency Department Visits for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation

Brian H Rowe,
Rita K Cydulka,
Chu-Lin Tsai,
Sunday Clark,
Douglas Sinclair,
Carlos A Camargo

Affiliations

Brian H Rowe: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Rita K Cydulka: MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Chu-Lin Tsai: Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Sunday Clark: Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Douglas Sinclair: Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Carlos A Camargo: Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, USA

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2008/696482
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 15, no. 6
pp. 295 – 301

Abstract

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INTRODUCTION: Despite the frequency of emergency department (ED) visits for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation, little is known about practice variation in EDs.

Published in Canadian Respiratory Journal

ISSN: 1198-2241 (Print); 1916-7245 (Online)
Publisher: Hindawi Limited
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the respiratory system
Website: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/7503

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