The most dangerous hospital or the most dangerous equation?

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Tu, Yu Kang ^a   Gilthorpe, Mark S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EVALUATION; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HOSPITAL STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PERFORMANCE; POLICY; UNITED KINGDOM; CLASSIFICATION; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; MEDICAL AUDIT; METHODOLOGY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENGLAND; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; MEDICAL AUDIT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 38149082652     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-7-185     Document Type: Article

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