Agency for healthcare research and quality pediatric indicators as a quality metric for surgery in children: Do they predict adverse outcomes?

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 107-111

  Rhee, Daniel ^a,b   Zhang, Yiyi ^a   Papandria, Dominic ^a   Ortega, Gezzer ^a   Abdullah, Fizan ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ST JOSEPH MERCY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Mortality; Patient safety; Pediatric quality indicators; Pediatric surgery

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE OUTCOME; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION REACTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECUBITUS; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL CHARGE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INFANT; LACERATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDIATRIC QUALITY INDICATOR; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; RACE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SEX; SURGICAL MORTALITY; WOUND DEHISCENCE;

CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY;

EID: 84862961959     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: 15315037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2011.10.025     Document Type: Article

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