Selective referral to high-volume hospitals: Estimating potentially avoidable deaths

JAMA

Volumn 283, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1159-1166

  Dudley, R Adams ^a,c   Johansen, Kirsten L ^a   Brand, Richard ^a   Rennie, Deborah J ^a   Milstein, Arnold ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Toyota Technical Center USA Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ANEURYSM SURGERY; ARTERY SURGERY; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DATA BASE; DEATH; ELECTIVE SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS CANCER; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MORTALITY; PANCREAS CANCER; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

EID: 0034161494     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.283.9.1159     Document Type: Article

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