Mortality rates, hospital length of stay, and the cost of treating subarachnoid hemorrhage in older patients: Institutional and geographical differences

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 583-588

  Taylor, Christopher L ^a   Yuan, Zhong ^a   Selman, Warren R ^a,b   Ratcheson, Robert A ^a   Rimm, Alfred A ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

cost analysis; epidemiological study; length of stay; mortality rate; subarachnoid hemorrhage

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 0030968291     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/jns.1997.86.4.0583     Document Type: Article

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