Public reporting of mortality rates for hospitalized medicare patients and trends in mortality for reported conditions

Annals of Internal Medicine

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 153-160

  Joynt, Karen E ^a   Orav, E John ^a   Zheng, Jie ^a   Jha, Ashish K ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; MORTALITY RATE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TRENDS; UNITED STATES;

AGED; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PNEUMONIA; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84980349669     PISSN: 00034819     EISSN: 15393704     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7326/M15-1462     Document Type: Article

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