Increased Risk of Mortality among Patients Cared for by Physicians with Short Length-of-Stay Tendencies

Journal of General Internal Medicine

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 712-718

  Southern, William N ^a   Arnsten, Julia H ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Health services; Hospital economics; Incentives; Outcomes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN; PROPENSITY SCORE; QUASI EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; TEACHING HOSPITAL; URBAN AREA; AGED; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECONOMICS; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84929844265     PISSN: 08848734     EISSN: 15251497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11606-014-3155-8     Document Type: Article

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