The prevalence of patient safety indicators and hospital-acquired conditions in patients with ruptured cerebral aneurysms: Establishing standard performance measures using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample database - Clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1633-1640

  Fargen, Kyle M ^a   Neal, Dan ^a   Rahman, Maryam ^a   Hoh, Brian L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cerebral aneurysm; Hospital acquired condition; Patient safety indicator; Pay for performance; Ruptured aneurysm; Subarachnoid hemorrhage; Vascular disorders

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANEURYSM CLIP; ARTICLE; BRAIN ARTERY ANEURYSM RUPTURE; CLINICAL INDICATOR; COMORBIDITY; DATA BASE; ENDOVASCULAR ANEURYSM REPAIR; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED CONDITION; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY INDICATOR; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 84889249626     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.7.JNS13595     Document Type: Article

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