Using hospital outcomes to predict 30-day mortality among injured patients insured by medicare

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 195-200

  Gorra, Adam S ^a   Clark, David E ^a,b   Mullins, Richard J ^c  

^a MAINE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; INJURY SCALE; INJURY SEVERITY; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTCOME VARIABLE; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 79951883446     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2010.318     Document Type: Article

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