Hospital remoteness and thirty-day mortality from three serious conditions

Health Affairs

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1707-1717

  Ross, Joseph S ^a   Normand, Sharon Lise T ^b   Wang, Yun ^c   Nallamothu, Brahmajee K ^d   Lichtman, Judith H ^e   Krumholz, Harlan M ^f  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f Department of Medicine and Epidemiology and Public Health ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITALIZATION; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; RURAL AREA; UNITED STATES;

AGED; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 56649114245     PISSN: 02782715     EISSN: 02782715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1377/hlthaff.27.6.1707     Document Type: Article

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