Profiling hospitals by survival of patients with colorectal cancer

Health Services Research

Volumn 46, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 729-746

  Zheng, Hui ^a,b   Zhang, Wei ^c   Ayanian, John Z ^a   Zaborski, Lawrence B ^a   Zaslavsky, Alan M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c CHINA EUROPE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL   (China)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Cancer care; colorectal cancer; provider profiling; quality measurement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER REGISTRY; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; COLORECTAL CANCER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; SURVIVAL RATE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BENCHMARKING; CALIFORNIA; COLORECTAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 79955573884     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01222.x     Document Type: Article

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