Recent trends in Victorian risk-adjusted in-hospital mortality: 1999-2009

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 1218-1223

  Duke, G ^a   Barker, A ^b   Santamaria, J ^c,d   Graco, M ^e  

^a NORTHERN HEALTH   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ST VINCENT S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e Northern Clinical Research Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Hospital; Mortality; Temporal trend

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CALIBRATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRUDE MORTALITY RATE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PEER GROUP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TREND STUDY;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; RISK FACTORS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS; VICTORIA;

EID: 84869834768     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2012.02797.x     Document Type: Article

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