Standardised mortality ratios: Monitoring mortality

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 338, Issue 7702, 2009, Pages 1028-

  Aylin, Paul ^a   Bottle, Alex ^a   Jarman, Brian ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSAULT; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; LETTER; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; NOTE;

COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS;

EID: 67649119862     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.b1745     Document Type: Letter

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