The trade-off between costs and outcomes: The case of acute myocardial infarction

Health Services Research

Volumn 45, Issue 6 PART 1, 2010, Pages 1585-1601

  Schreyögg, Jonas ^a,b   Stargardt, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

acute myocardial infarction; Hospital costs; mortality; outcomes; readmission; trade off

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COST CONTROL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE);

EID: 78449278985     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01161.x     Document Type: Article

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