Hospital Discharge against Advice after Myocardial Infarction: Deaths and Readmissions

American Journal of Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1047-1053

  Fiscella, Kevin ^a   Meldrum, Sean ^a   Barnett, Steve ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospitalization; Mortality; Myocardial infarction; Patient compliance; Patient discharge

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEATH; FEMALE; GENDER; HAZARD RATIO; HEALTH INSURANCE; HEART MUSCLE REVASCULARIZATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE AGAINST MEDICAL ADVICE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MENTAL DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STANDARD; TREATMENT REFUSAL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA, UNSTABLE; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; MYOCARDIAL REVASCULARIZATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT DROPOUTS; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 36448976232     PISSN: 00029343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2007.08.024     Document Type: Article

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