Risk-adjusted mortality: Problems and possibilities

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine

Volumn 2012, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Shine, Daniel ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS;

CO-MORBID CONDITIONS; COMORBIDITIES; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MORTALITY RISK; RISK ADJUSTMENT; RISK-ADJUSTED;

HOSPITALS;

ACIDOSIS; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ACUTE RESPIRATORY FAILURE; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BACTERIURIA; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; DECUBITUS; DEHYDRATION; ELECTRONIC SPREADSHEET; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERKALEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; HYPOKALEMIA; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LIVER CANCER; LUNG COLLAPSE; MORTALITY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEPTICEMIA; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION;

COMORBIDITY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 84859778295     PISSN: 1748670X     EISSN: 17486718     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2012/829465     Document Type: Article

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