Template matching for auditing hospital cost and quality

Health Services Research

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1446-1474

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAILURE TO RESCUE; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; OPERATION DURATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; QUALITY CONTROL PROCEDURES; RESCUE WORK; TEMPLATE MATCHING; TREATMENT FAILURE; UROLOGIC SURGERY; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HIGH VOLUME HOSPITAL; LOW VOLUME HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDICS; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BENCHMARKING; CLINICAL AUDIT; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, HIGH-VOLUME; HOSPITALS, LOW-VOLUME; HUMANS; ILLINOIS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW YORK; ORTHOPEDICS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84908223868     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12156     Document Type: Article

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