Status and perspectives of hospital mortality in a public urban Hellenic hospital, based on a five-year review

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Papadopoulos, Iordanis N ^a   Papaefthymiou, Maria ^a   Roumeliotis, Leonidas ^a   Panagopoulos, Vasilios G ^b   Stefanidou, Anna ^c   Kostaki, Anastasia ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b GENERAL HOSPITAL OF NIKEA   (Greece)

^c ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS CANCER; CARDIOLOGY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CERTIFICATION; CHILD; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEATH; DEATH CERTIFICATE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASE; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; INFLUENZA; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LARGE INTESTINE CANCER; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEPHROLOGY; ONCOLOGY; ORGAN DONOR; PARASITOSIS; PNEUMONIA; POPULATION; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERMINAL CARE; URBAN AREA; GREECE; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RACE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; STATISTICS; TIME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; FEMALE; GREECE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 40149092813     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-28     Document Type: Article

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