Early readmissions to the department of medicine as a screening tool for monitoring quality of care problems

Medicine

Volumn 87, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 294-300

  Balla, Uri ^b   Malnick, Stephen ^b   Schattner, Ami ^a  

^a KAPLAN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; ISRAEL; LABORATORY TEST; LENGTH OF STAY; LIVER DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICATION ERROR; MONITORING; MORTALITY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; SYNCOPE; MASS SCREENING; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE BLIND PROCEDURE; STATISTICS; TIME;

AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISRAEL; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 53049088595     PISSN: 00257974     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MD.0b013e3181886f93     Document Type: Article

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