Variations in Standardized Hospital Mortality Rates for Six Common Medical Diagnoses: Implications for Profiling Hospital Quality

Medical Care

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 955-964

  Rosenthal, Gary E ^a   Shah, Amrik ^b   Way, Lynne E ^c   Harper, Dwain L ^c  

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

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Qual Info Management Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

Health policy; Health services research; Hospital mortality; Quality of health care; Severity of illness index

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INFORMATION SERVICES; LUNG DISEASES, OBSTRUCTIVE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OHIO; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0032112635     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199807000-00003     Document Type: Article

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