A hospital-specific template for benchmarking its cost and quality

Health Services Research

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1475-1497

  Silber, Jeffrey H ^a,b,c,d   Rosenbaum, Paul R ^c,d   Ross, Richard N ^a   Ludwig, Justin M ^a   Wang, Wei ^a   Niknam, Bijan A ^a   Saynisch, Philip A ^a   Even Shoshan, Orit ^a,d   Kelz, Rachel R ^b   Fleisher, Lee A ^b,d  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cost; health care research; outcomes research; Quality of care

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; QUALITY CONTROL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STANDARDIZATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; UROLOGIC SURGERY; ACCOUNTING; ECONOMICS; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VALIDATION STUDY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BENCHMARKING; FEMALE; FINANCIAL AUDIT; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW YORK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84908213580     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12226     Document Type: Article

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