The relationship between the emergent primary percutaneous coronary intervention quality measure and inpatient myocardial infarction mortality

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 793-800

  Khare, Rahul K ^a,b   Courtney, D Mark ^a   Kang, Raymond ^a,b   Adams, James G ^a   Feinglass, Joseph ^a,b  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; EMERGENCY CARE; EVALUATION RESEARCH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON, CORONARY; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77955722199     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: 15532712     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00821.x     Document Type: Article

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