Predicting In-Hospital Deaths from Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery: Do Different Severity Measures Give Different Predictions?

Medical Care

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 28-39

  Iezzoni, Lisa I ^a,d   Ash, Arlene S ^b   Shwartz, Michael ^c   Landon, Bruce E ^a   Mackiernan, Yevgenia D ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Coronary artery bypass graft surgery; Hospital mortality; Severity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031612470     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199801000-00005     Document Type: Article

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