Using electronic health records for surgical quality improvement in the era of big data

JAMA Surgery

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 24-29

  Anderson, Jamie E ^a   Chang, David C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ADULT; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COLON RESECTION; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS RESECTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY CONTROL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGERY; SURVIVAL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRENDS; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION;

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER CURVE; COHORT STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84921676919     PISSN: 21686254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2014.947     Document Type: Article

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