Use of medicare claims to rank hospitals by surgical site infection risk following coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 775-783

  Huang, Susan S ^a,b   Placzek, Hilary ^a   Livingston, James ^a   Ma, Allen ^c   Onufrak, Fallon ^a   Lankiewicz, Julie ^a   Kleinman, Ken ^a   Bratzler, Dale ^c   Olsen, Margaret A ^d   Lyles, Rosie ^e   Khan, Yosef ^f   Wright, Paula ^g   Yokoe, Deborah S ^h   Fraser, Victoria J ^d   Weinstein, Robert A ^e   Stevenson, Kurt ^f   Hooper, David ^g   Vostok, Johanna ^a   Datta, Rupak ^a,b   Nsa, Wato ^c   Platt, Richard ^a,h   more..

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^f THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^h BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MEDICARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SURGICAL INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REPORTING; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICARE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79960707582     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/660874     Document Type: Review

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