Adverse event rates as measures of hospital performance

Health Policy

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 146-154

  Hauck, Katharina ^a   Zhao, Xueyan ^b   Jackson, Terri ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ECONOMICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

Adverse events; Complications; Hospital quality; Medical errors; Patient complexity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADVERSE EVENT; ARTICLE; COMPLICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMERGENCY PATIENT; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SURGICAL PATIENT; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POVERTY AREAS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; VICTORIA;

EID: 84855573735     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2011.06.010     Document Type: Article

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