Administrative data linkage to evaluate a quality improvement program in acute stroke care, Georgia, 2006-2009

Preventing Chronic Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Ido, Moges Seyoum ^a   Bayakly, Rana ^b   Frankel, Michael ^c   Lyn, Rodney ^d   Okosun, Ike S ^d  

^a Medical Epidemiologist   (United States)

^b Georgia Department of Public Health   (Georgia)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROCEDURES; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRENDS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; GEORGIA; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84922379336     PISSN: 15451151     EISSN: 21665435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5888/pcd12.140238     Document Type: Article

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