Hospital strategies for reducing risk-standardized mortality rates in acute myocardial infarction

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 156, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 618-627

  Bradley, Elizabeth H ^a   Curry, Leslie A ^a   Spatz, Erica S ^a   Herrin, Jeph ^a   Cherlin, Emily J ^a   Curtis, Jeptha P ^b   Thompson, Jennifer W ^a   Ting, Henry H ^a   Wang, Yongfei ^a   Krumholz, Harlan M ^a  

^a Yale University School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; CARDIOLOGIST; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK REDUCTION; RISK STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATE;

EID: 84860369090     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/0003-4819-156-9-201205010-00003     Document Type: Article

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