Use of administrative claims models to assess 30-day mortality among veterans health administration hospitals

Medical Care

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 652-658

  Ross, Joseph S ^a,b   Maynard, Charles ^c   Krumholz, Harlan M ^d,e,f,g   Sun, Haili ^c   Rumsfeld, John S ^a,h   Normand, Sharon Lise T ^i,j   Wang, Yun ^d   Fihn, Stephan D ^c,k  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Puget Sound Health Care System   (United States)

^d YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^e Section of Cardiovascular Medicine   (United States)

^f Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program   (United States)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

ⁱ HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^j HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

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Author keywords

acute myocardial infarction; heart failure; mortality; pneumonia; risk adjustment; veterans

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VETERAN;

AGED; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REPORTING; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 77954089197     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181dbe35d     Document Type: Article

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