Relationship between hospital length of stay and quality of care in patients with congestive heart failure

Quality and Safety in Health Care

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 219-223

  Kossovsky, Michel Picard ^a   Sarasin, F P ^a   Chopard, P ^a   Louis Simonet, M ^a   Sigaud, P ^a   Perneger, T V ^a,b   Gaspoz, J M ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 0036752252     PISSN: 09638172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/qhc.11.3.219     Document Type: Article

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