Quality of care provided to individual patients in US hospitals: Results from an analysis of national hospital quality alliance data

Medical Care

Volumn 47, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 591-599

  Vogeli, Christine ^a,e   Kang, Raymond ^c   Landrum, Mary Beth ^b   Hasnain Wynia, Romana ^c   Weissman, Joel S ^d  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Executive Office for Health and Human Services   (United States)

^e Institute for Health Policy   (United States)

Author keywords

Hospitalizations; Inpatients; Quality indicators

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PERFORMANCE; PNEUMONIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; UNITED STATES; ADOLESCENT; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 65549130942     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31819432cd     Document Type: Article

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