Should we add clinical variables to administrative data?: The case of risk-adjusted case fatality rates after admission for acute myocardial infarction

Medical Care

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1180-1185

  Johnston, Trisha C ^a   Coory, Michael D ^a,b   Scott, Ian ^a   Duckett, Stephen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Epidemiology Services Unit   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Comorbidity; Mortality; Quality measurement; Risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BLOOD PRESSURE; COMORBIDITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT ADMISSION; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 36249006896     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e318148477c     Document Type: Article

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