Overcoming bias in estimating the volume-outcome relationship

Health Services Research

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 252-264

  Tsai, Alexander C ^a   Votruba, Mark ^b   Bridges, John F P ^c   Cebul, Randall D ^a,d  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d METROHEALTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Congestive heart failure; Instrumental variables; Outcomes research; Selective referral; Volume outcome effect

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PATIENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; UNITED STATES; VITAL SIGN; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HOSPITAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

AGED; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); FEMALE; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; OHIO;

EID: 33644904086     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2005.00461.x     Document Type: Article

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