The Dutch hospital standardised mortality ratio (HSMR) method and cardiac surgery: Benchmarking in a national cohort using hospital administration data versus a clinical database

Heart

Volumn 100, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 702-710

  Siregar, S ^a   Pouw, M E ^a   Moons, K G M ^a   Versteegh, M I M ^b   Bots, M L ^a   Van Der Graaf, Y ^a   Kalkman, C J ^a   Van Herwerden, L A ^a   Groenwold, R H H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DATA BASE; DUTCH HOSPITAL STANDARDISED MORTALITY RATIO METHOD; EUROSCORE; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; REGISTER; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

CARDIAC SURGERY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BENCHMARKING; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898036851     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2013-304645     Document Type: Article

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