Improvements in the distribution of hospital performance for the care of patients with acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia, 2006-2011

Medical Care

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 485-491

  Nuti, Sudhakar V ^a   Wang, Yongfei ^a   Masoudi, Frederick A ^b   Bratzler, Dale W ^c   Bernheim, Susannah M ^a   Murugiah, Karthik ^a   Krumholz, Harlan M ^a,d,e  

^a YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

heart failure; myocardial infarction; pneumonia; quality improvement; quality of care

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ARTICLE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; DEMOGRAPHY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CENTERS FOR MEDICARE AND MEDICAID SERVICES (U.S.); HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); OWNERSHIP; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84929917480     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000358     Document Type: Article

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