Effects of admission to a teaching hospital on the cost and quality of care for medicare beneficiaries

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 340, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 293-299

  Taylor Jr , Donald H ^a   Whellan, David J ^b   Sloan, Frank A ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STROKE; SURVIVAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

AGED; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; CORONARY DISEASE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITALS, PRIVATE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MEDICARE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0345222516     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199901283400408     Document Type: Review

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