Variability in case-mix adjusted in-hospital cardiac arrest rates

Medical Care

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 124-130

  Merchant, Raina M ^a   Yang, Lin ^a   Becker, Lance B ^a   Berg, Robert A ^a   Nadkarni, Vinay ^a   Nichol, Graham ^b   Carr, Brendan G ^a   Mitra, Nandita ^a   Bradley, Steven M ^b   Abella, Benjamin S ^a   Groeneveld, Peter W ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cardiopulmonary resuscitation; heart arrest; resuscitation

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CASE MIX; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART ARREST; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCOME; INJURY; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MEDICAL INFORMATION; MEDICARE; NURSE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; UNITED STATES; URBAN AREA;

ADULT; HEALTH FACILITY SIZE; HEART ARREST; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862973590     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e31822d5d17     Document Type: Article

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