Risk-adjusting hospital mortality using a comprehensive electronic record in an integrated health care delivery system

Medical Care

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 446-453

  Escobar, Gabriel J ^a   Gardner, Marla N ^a   Greene, John D ^a   Draper, David ^b   Kipnis, Patricia ^a,c  

^a DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^c Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

care directive; electronic medical records; end of life care; hospital mortality; physiologic derangement; risk adjustment; severity of illness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; INTENSIVE CARE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; CALIFORNIA; COMORBIDITY; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE, INTEGRATED; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; VITAL SIGNS;

EID: 84876279048     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3182881c8e     Document Type: Article

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