Myocardial infarction mortality in rural and urban hospitals: Rethinking measures of quality of care

Annals of Family Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 105-111

  James, Paul A ^a   Li, Pengxiang ^b   Ward, Marcia M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular diseases; Confounders; Health care delivery; Health services research; Instrumental variable; Mortality; Myocardial infarction; Quality of care; Quantitative methods; Rural hospitals

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; URBAN POPULATION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; IOWA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION OF PATIENTS;

EID: 34047143688     PISSN: 15441709     EISSN: 15441717     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1370/afm.625     Document Type: Article

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