Comparisons of risk-adjusted clinical outcomes for patients with aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage across eight teaching hospitals in Japan

Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 416-421

  Ishizaki, Tatsuro ^a   Imanaka, Yuichi ^a   Sekimoto, Miho ^a   Fukuda, Haruhisa ^a   Mihara, Hanako ^a   Itamoto, Kouji ^b   Koizumi, Takayuki ^b   Eguchi, Tsuneyoshi ^b   Higashi, Sotaro ^b   Nakamura, Tarou ^b   Hayashi, Junichi ^b   Yamagata, Sen ^b   Natori, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Intracranial aneurysm; Japan; Outcome assessment (health care); Risk adjustment; Subarachnoid haemorrhage

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GLASGOW OUTCOME SCALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

AGED; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; JAPAN; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 43149083893     PISSN: 13561294     EISSN: 13652753     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2007.00882.x     Document Type: Article

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