Association between hospital cardiac management and outcomes for acute myocardial infarction patients

Medical Care

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 157-165

  Stukel, Therese A ^a,b,c   Alter, David A ^a,b,c,d,e   Schull, Michael J ^a,b,c,f   Ko, Dennis T ^a,b,c   Li, Ping ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^d ST MICHAEL'S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^e TORONTO REHABILITATION INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Emergency medicine; Health services research; Hospital quality; Myocardial infarction; Outcomes research; Performance measurement; Practice variations; Survival analysis

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CANADA; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ONTARIO; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 77449103573     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181bd4da7     Document Type: Article

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