Risk-adjusting hospital inpatient mortality using automated inpatient, outpatient, and laboratory databases

Medical Care

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 232-239

  Escobar, Gabriel J ^a,b   Greene, John D ^a   Scheirer, Peter ^a,d   Gardner, Marla N ^a,d   Draper, David ^c   Kipnis, Patricia ^a,d  

^a DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^d Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnostic Cost Groups; Inpatient; Mortality; Risk adjustment; Severity of illness

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; HOSPITAL LABORATORY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LABORATORIES, HOSPITAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 42449097690     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181589bb6     Document Type: Article

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