"phenotyping" hospital value of care for patients with heart failure

Health Services Research

Volumn 49, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 2000-2016

  Xu, Xiao ^a   Li, Shu Xia ^b   Lin, Haiqun ^c   Normand, Sharon Lise T ^d,e   Kim, Nancy ^a,b   Ott, Lesli S ^b   Lagu, Tara ^f,g   Duan, Michael ^h   Kroch, Eugene A ⁱ   Krumholz, Harlan M ^a,b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^g BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^h Tufts University School of Medicine ^*  (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; heart failure; mortality; trajectory; value of care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RISK STANDARDIZED COST; RISK STANDARDIZED IN HOSPITAL MORTALITY RATE; CLASSIFICATION; COST; ECONOMICS; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HOSPITAL; MORTALITY; STANDARDS;

COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE;

EID: 84912107253     PISSN: 00179124     EISSN: 14756773     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1475-6773.12197     Document Type: Article

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