Unplanned readmissions of patients with congestive heart failure: Do they reflect in-hospital quality of care or patient characteristics?

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 109, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 386-390

  Kossovsky, Michel P ^a   Sarasin, François P ^a   Perneger, Thomas V ^a,b   Chopard, Pierre ^a   Sigaud, Philippe ^a   Gaspoz, Jean Michel ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYTIC METHOD; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

EID: 0033795124     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9343(00)00489-7     Document Type: Article

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