A time-insensitive predictive instrument for acute hospital mortality due to congestive heart failure: Development, testing, and use for comparing hospitals: A multicenter study

Medical Care

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 1994, Pages 1040-1052

  Selker, Harry P ^a   Griffith, John L ^a   D’Agostino, Ralph B ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure; Hospital mortality; Outcomes; Risk adjusted mortality; Time insensitive predictive instrument (TIPI)

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NEW ENGLAND; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0028520518     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199410000-00005     Document Type: Article

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