Explaining Variations in Hospital Death Rates: Randomness, Severity of Illness, Quality of Care

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 264, Issue 4, 1990, Pages 484-490

  Park, Rolla Edward ^a   Brook, Robert H ^a,c   Kosecoff, Jacqueline ^b,c   Keesey, Joan ^a   Rubenstein, Lisa ^a,c   Keeler, Emmett ^a   Kahn, Katherine L ^a,c   Rogers, William H ^a   Chassin, Mark R ^b  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Value Health Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; CALIFORNIA; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITALS; HUMAN; ILLINOIS; MEDICAL RECORDS; MEDICARE; MINNESOTA; MORTALITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; NEW YORK; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0025340834     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.1990.03450040080035     Document Type: Article

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