Indirect vs Direct Hospital Quality Indicators for very Low-Birth-Weight Infants

JAMA

Volumn 291, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 202-209

  Rogowski, Jeannette A ^a   Horbar, Jeffrey D ^b   Staiger, Douglas O ^c,d   Kenny, Michael ^e   Carpenter, Joseph ^f   Geppert, Jeffrey ^d  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Dartmouth College   (United States)

^d NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^f VERMONT OXFORD NETWORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL CARE; NEWBORN; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

EID: 0345831916     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.291.2.202     Document Type: Article

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