Assessing surrogacy of data sources for institutional comparisons

Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology

Volumn 7, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 79-96

  Normand, Sharon Lise T ^a,b   Wang, Yun ^c   Krumholz, Harlan M ^c,d  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute Myocardial infarction; Bayesian Inference; Hierarchial model; Mortality; Prediction; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH INSURANCE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDIZATION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34147128617     PISSN: 13873741     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10742-006-0018-8     Document Type: Article

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