Measuring the process of quality of care for ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction through data-mining of the electronic discharge notes

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 116-120

  Chang, Sheng Nan ^a   Lin, Jou Wei ^b   Liu, Shi Chi ^a   Hwang, Juey Jen ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b Yun Lin Branch   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Early use statin; Electronic note; Goal LDL; Quality of care; ST segment elevation acute myocardial infarction

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; STATIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA MINING; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICAL RECORD; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TAIWAN;

AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TAIWAN;

EID: 38349039337     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2007.00812.x     Document Type: Article

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