Hospital stroke volume and case-fatality revisited

Medical Care

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 149-156

  Ogbu, Uzor C ^a,b   Slobbe, Laurentius C J ^b   Arah, Onyebuchi A ^a,c   De Bruin, Agnes ^d   Stronks, Karien ^a   Westert, Gert P ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d STATISTICS NETHERLANDS   (Netherlands)

^e TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hospital volume; Stroke; Volume based referral; Volume outcome associations

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; STROKE; CLASSIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT TRANSPORT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; PATIENT TRANSFER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE;

EID: 77449098991     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181bd4df1     Document Type: Article

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