Flaws in Mortality Data: The Hazards of Ignoring Comorbid Disease

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 260, Issue 15, 1988, Pages 2253-2255

  Greenfield, Sheldon ^a   Aronow, Harriet Udin ^a   Elashoff, Robert M ^a   Watanabe, Diane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CALIFORNIA; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM STAGING; NEOPLASMS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0023718192     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1988.03410150101039     Document Type: Article

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