Mortality for publicly reported conditions and overall hospital mortality rates

JAMA Internal Medicine

Volumn 173, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 1351-1357

  McCrum, Marta L ^a,b   Joynt, Karen E ^a,b,c   Orav, E John ^a,b   Gawande, Atul A ^a,b   Jha, Ashish K ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PERFORMANCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEACHING HOSPITAL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

AGED; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PNEUMONIA; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RISK ADJUSTMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84880648735     PISSN: 21686106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.7049     Document Type: Article

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