Do patient safety indicators explain increased weekend mortality?

Journal of Surgical Research

Volumn 200, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 164-170

  Ricciardi, Rocco ^a   Nelson, Jason ^a   Francone, Todd D ^a   Roberts, Patricia L ^a   Read, Thomas E ^a   Hall, Jason F ^a   Schoetz, David J ^a   Marcello, Peter W ^a  

^a LAHEY HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mortality; Non elective; Patient safety indicator; Weekend

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL PUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL INDICATOR; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCOME; LACERATION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY RATE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SAFETY INDICATOR; PNEUMOTHORAX; POPULATION RISK; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INJURY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; WOUND DEHISCENCE; EVALUATION STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; OUT-OF-HOURS CARE; STANDARDS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TIME FACTOR; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AFTER-HOURS CARE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RISK ADJUSTMENT; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84938718343     PISSN: 00224804     EISSN: 10958673     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2015.07.030     Document Type: Article

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