Patient satisfaction at America's lowest performing hospitals

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 365-372

  Girotra, Saket ^a   Cram, Peter ^a,b   Popescu, Ioana ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; Congestive heart failure; Hospital quality; Patient satisfaction

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

BENCHMARKING; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, RURAL; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT SATISFACTION; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84864588868     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.111.964361     Document Type: Article

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