A risk adjusted method for comparing adverse outcomes among practitioners in pediatric and congenital cardiac catheterization

Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 230-240

  Bergersen, Lisa ^a   Gauvreau, Kimberlee ^a   Lock, James E ^a   Jenkins, Kathy J ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Performance measure; Risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CARDIOVERSION; CASE MIX; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY STENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VALVE REGURGITATION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG EDEMA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RESUSCITATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VALVULOPLASTY;

CHILD; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; ODDS RATIO; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PEDIATRICS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RISK ADJUSTMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 48449100198     PISSN: 1747079X     EISSN: 17470803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0803.2008.00196.x     Document Type: Article

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