articleJAMAApr 7, 2010Closed access

Acute Care Utilization and Rehospitalizations for Sickle Cell Disease

Medical College of Wisconsin

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Abstract

Objective

To provide benchmark data for rates of acute care utilization and rehospitalizations for patients with sickle cell disease.

Design

Retrospective cohort of sickle cell disease-related emergency department (ED) visits and hospitalizations from select states in the 2005 and 2006 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) State Inpatient Databases and State Emergency Department Databases.

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Topics & keywords

Keywords
  • Medicine
  • Emergency department
  • Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project
  • Population
  • Disease
  • Confidence interval
  • Acute care
  • Emergency medicine
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