Comparing clinical data with administrative data for producing acute myocardial infarction report cards

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 115-126

  Austin, Peter C ^a,b   Tu, Jack V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Health services research; Hospital report cards; League tables; Provider profiling

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645053246     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2005.00380.x     Document Type: Article

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