Evaluation of the appropriateness of hospital care in internal medicine: Reliability of a german adaptation of the >>Appropriateness Evaluation Protocol<<;Erfassung der notwendigkeit von stationaren behandlungen in der inneren medizin: Reproduzierbarkeit eines fur deutschland adaptierten verfahrens

Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 125, Issue 30, 2000, Pages 894-899

  Schneeweiss, S ^a,b   Sangha, O ^a,c   Siebert, H ^d   Hebeisen, H ^d   Hubner, M ^e   Heinrich, R ^f   Wildner, M ^a   Witte, J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Medizinischer Dienst Krankenversicherung in Bayern   (Germany)

^e Krankenversicherung in Hessen   (Germany)

^f Krankenhaus Neuperlach   (Germany)

^g KLINIKUM AUGSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; EVALUATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RELIABILITY; INTERNAL MEDICINE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS;

AGED; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INTERNAL MEDICINE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT ADMISSION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0034725511     PISSN: 00120472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2000-6784     Document Type: Article

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