Avoidable Morbidity in Infants: A Classification Based on Diagnoses in Administrative Databases

Medical Care

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 237-254

  Mcconnochie, Kenneth M ^a,b   Roghmann, Klaus J ^a   Liptak, Gregory S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative databases; Avoidable morbidity; Infants; International Classification of Diseases; Morbidity clusters

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; ENVIRONMENT; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DISEASE; PEDIATRICS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, NEWBORN, DISEASES; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MORBIDITY; NEW YORK; PEDIATRICS; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0031092231     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199703000-00005     Document Type: Article

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