Measuring Hospital Quality: Can Medicare Data Substitute for All-Payer Data?

Health Services Research

Volumn 38, Issue 6 I, 2003, Pages 1487-1508

  Needleman, Jack ^a   Buerhaus, Peter I ^b   Mattke, Soeren ^c   Stewart, Maureen ^d   Zelevinshy, Katya ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF NURSING   (United States)

^c RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

^d BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Medicare; Nursing care; Quality of care; Reproducibility of results

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICARE; NURSING STAFF; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0346390717     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2003.00189.x     Document Type: Article

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