Administrative data outperformed single-day chart review for comorbidity measure

International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 225-231

  Luthi, Jean Christophe ^a,b   Troillet, Nicolas ^c   Eisenring, Marie Christine ^c   Sax, Hugo ^d   Burnand, Bernard ^b   Quan, Hude ^e   Ghali, William ^e,f  

^a Health Observatory   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^c Central Institute of the Valais Hospitals   (Switzerland)

^d GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Comorbidities; Death in hospital; Nosocomial infection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; KAPPA STATISTICS; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWITZERLAND; WARD;

COMORBIDITY; CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 34547867805     PISSN: 13534505     EISSN: 14643677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzm017     Document Type: Article

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