International comparability of patient safety indicators in 15 OECD member countries: A methodological approach of adjustment by secondary diagnoses

Health Services Research

Volumn 47, Issue 1 PART 1, 2012, Pages 275-292

  Drösler, Saskia E ^a   Romano, Patrick S ^b   Tancredi, Daniel J ^b   Klazinga, Niek S ^c,d  

^a NIEDERRHEIN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c OECD   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

international classification of diseases; Patient safety; quality indicators

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BLOODSTREAM INFECTION; CANADA; CATHETER INFECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DENMARK; DIAGNOSIS; FOREIGN BODY; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; IRELAND; ITALY; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; METHODOLOGY; NEW ZEALAND; NORWAY; PATIENT SAFETY; PORTUGAL; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SECONDARY DIAGNOSIS; SEPSIS; SINGAPORE; SPAIN; SWEDEN; SWITZERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; HUMANS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84855829559     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-6773.2011.01290.x     Document Type: Article

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