Can cardiovascular clinical characteristics be identified and outcome models be developed from an in-patient claims database?

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 166-169

  Weintraub, William S ^a   Deaton, Christi ^b   Shaw, Leslee ^a   Mahoney, Elizabeth ^a   Morris, Douglas C ^a   Saunders, Candice ^a   Canup, Debbie ^a   Connolly, Stephanie ^a   Culler, Steven ^b   Becker, Edmund R ^b   Kosinski, Andrzej ^b   Boccuzzi, Stephen J ^c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DATABASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTEGRATED ADVANCED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OFFICE AUTOMATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0032803420     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(99)00228-3     Document Type: Article

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