Excess mortality caused by medical injury

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 410-416

  Meurer, Linda N ^a   Yang, Hongyan ^a   Guse, Clare E ^a   Russo, Carla ^a   Brasel, Karen J ^a   Layde, Peter M ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse effects; Comorbidity; Hospital mortality; Iatrogenic disease; Medical errors; Medication errors; Postoperative complications; Quality of health care; Research methods; Safety, medical device

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICATION ERROR; MORTALITY; PHYSICIAN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING; SURGICAL ERROR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICATION ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; WISCONSIN;

EID: 33749647007     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.553     Document Type: Article

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