Looking forward, looking back: Assessing variations in hospital resource use and outcomes for elderly patients with heart failure

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 548-557

  Ong, Michael K ^a,i   Mangione, Carol M ^a,b   Romano, Patrick S ^c   Zhou, Qiong ^a   Auerbach, Andrew D ^d   Chun, Alein ^e   Davidson, Bruce ^e   Ganiats, Theodore G ^f   Greenfield, Sheldon ^g   Gropper, Michael A ^d   Malik, Shaista ^g   Rosenthal, J Thomas ^a   Escarce, José J ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^h RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

ⁱ Div Gen Int Med Hlth Serv Res   (United States)

Author keywords

Delivery of health care; Healthcare costs; Healthcare economics; Heart failure; Organizations; Outcome assessment

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL COST; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 72049123685     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.108.825612     Document Type: Article

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