Temporal changes in the influence of hospitals and regional healthcare networks on severe sepsis mortality

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1368-1374

  Prescott, Hallie C ^a   Kepreos, Kyle M ^b   Wiitala, Wyndy L ^b   Iwashyna, Theodore J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b VA ANN ARBOR HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

delivery of healthcare; hospitalization; multilevel analysis; patient outcomes assessment; veterans administration

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE MIX; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTEGRATED HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VENTILATED PATIENT; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOSPITAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; TIME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS;

EID: 84937565494     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000000970     Document Type: Article

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