A 100% departmental mortality review improves observed-to-expected mortality ratios and University HealthSystem Consortium rankings

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 218, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 554-562

  Heslin, Martin J ^a   Taylor, Benjamin ^b   Hawn, Mary T ^a   Davies, James E ^a   Heslin, Ryan T ^a   Mims, Andrew H ^a   Morgan, John E ^a   Rabun, R Luke ^a   Smedley, W Andrew ^a   Morris, Melanie S ^a   Reiff, Donald A ^a   McGwin, Gerald ^a   Bland, Kirby I ^a   Rue, Loring W ^a  

^a Kentucky   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AWARENESS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED CONDITION; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LACERATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SAFETY INDICATOR; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; REVIEW; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY;

AGED; ALABAMA; BENCHMARKING; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MEDICAL ERRORS; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL;

EID: 84896493444     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: 18791190     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2013.12.023     Document Type: Article

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