A validated value-based model to improve hospital-wide perioperative outcomes: Adaptability to combined medical/surgical inpatient cohorts

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 252, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 486-496

  Ravikumar, Thanjavur S ^a,b,c,d   Sharma, Cordelia ^a,b,c,d   Marini, Corrado ^a,b   Steele, Glenn D ^a   Ritter, Garry ^b   Barrera, Rafael ^b   Kim, Mimi ^c   Safyer, Steven M ^d   Vandervoort, Kathy ^d   De Geronimo, Marcella ^b,e   Baker, Lindsay ^d   Levi, Peter ^d   Pierdon, Steven ^a   Horgan, Meg ^a   Maynor, Kenric ^a   Maloney, Gerald ^a   Wojtowicz, Mark ^a   Nelson, Karen ^b  

^a GEISINGER HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b LIJ Medical Center   (United States)

^c ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Krasnoff Quality Management Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PATIENT; VALIDATION STUDY; ADULT; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INTERVENTION STUDY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MEDICAL ERROR; MORTALITY; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATIENT CARE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; GENERAL SURGERY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; LENGTH OF STAY; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MEDICAL ERRORS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT CARE TEAM; PATIENT READMISSION; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 77956202596     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181f1c412     Document Type: Article

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