Development and Validation of a Mortality Risk-Adjustment Model for Patients Hospitalized for Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Medical Care

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 597-605

  Tabak, Ying P ^a   Sun, Xiaowu ^a   Johannes, Richard S ^a,b,c   Hyde, Linda ^a   Shorr, Andrew F ^d   Lindenauer, Peter K ^e,f  

^a Clinical Research Department   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER   (United States)

^e BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^f TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

AECOPD; electronic health record (EHR); mortality; performance measurement; risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN;

ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE EXACERBATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VASCULAR DISEASE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAL SIGN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW ENGLAND; ODDS RATIO; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RISK ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 84879889547     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3182901982     Document Type: Article

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