Quality of care of medicare beneficiaries with acute myocardial infarction: Who is included in quality improvement measurement?

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 51, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 466-475

  Rathore, Saif S ^a   Wang, Yongfei ^a   Radford, Martha J ^a,b,c   Ordin, Diana L ^d   Krumholz, Harlan M ^a,b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c QUALIDIGM   (United States)

^d Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Myocardial infarction; Older people; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; WARFARIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; DRUG INDICATION; ELDERLY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOTENSIN-CONVERTING ENZYME INHIBITORS; ASPIRIN; FEMALE; GERIATRICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0037395262     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1532-5415.2003.51154.x     Document Type: Article

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