An assessment of composite measures of hospital performance and associated mortality for patients with acute myocardial infarction. Analysis of individual hospital performance and outcome for the National Institute for Cardiovascular Outcomes Research (NICOR)

European Heart Journal: Acute Cardiovascular Care

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 9-18

  Simms, Alexander d ^b,c   Baxter, Paul D ^a   Cattle, Brian A ^a   Batin, Phillip d ^d   Wilson, John i ^d   West, Robert M ^a   Hall, Alistair s ^e   Weston, Clive f ^f   Deanfield, John E ^g   Fox, Keith A ^h   Gale, Chris p ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^c YORK TEACHING HOSPITAL NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d MID YORKSHIRE HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^e LEEDS TEACHING HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^f SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^g UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute myocardial infarction; composite performance indicators; mortality; performance; quality of care

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990397366     PISSN: 20488726     EISSN: 20488734     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2048872612469132     Document Type: Article

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