Comparing risk-prediction methods using administrative or clinical data in assessing excess in-hospital mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 188, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 332-336

  Scott, Ian A ^a   Thomson, Peter L ^a   Narasimhan, Seshasayee ^a  

^a PRINCESS ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HEART ARREST; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SELECTION; PREDICTION; PROCESS CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; MEDICAL RECORD; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 44049098327     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2008.tb01648.x     Document Type: Article

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