The hospital mortality project: A tool for using administrative data for continuous clinical quality assurance

Health Information Management Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 9-18

  Mukhtar, S Aqif ^a   Hoffman, Neville E ^b   MacQuillan, Gerry ^b   Semmens, James B ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SIR CHARLES GAIRDNER HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Administrative data; Computerized; Health care; Hospital; Medical audit; Medical records systems; Quality assurance

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 46649111729     PISSN: 18333583     EISSN: 18333575     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/183335830803700202     Document Type: Review

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