Risk adjustment using administrative data: Impact of a diagnosis-type indicator

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 519-524

  Ghali, William A ^a,b,c   Quan, Hude ^b   Brant, Rollin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Comorbidities; Complications; Coronary artery bypass graft surgery; Risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART INFARCTION; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LIVER DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PEPTIC ULCER; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

CANADA; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RISK ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 0035724831     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1497.2001.016008519.x     Document Type: Article

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