Comment on Silber et al.: Investing in postadmission survival - A "failure-to-rescue" U.S. population health

Health Services Research

Volumn 45, Issue 6 PART 2, 2010, Pages 1903-1907

  Barnato, Amber E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NOTE; SURVIVAL; TONSILLECTOMY; UNITED STATES;

CHRONIC DISEASE; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; MEDICARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78449294768     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01185.x     Document Type: Note

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