Relationship between input and output in acute medicine - Secondary analysis of the Society for Acute Medicine's benchmarking audit 2013 (SAMBA '13)

Clinical Medicine, Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 15-19

  Subbe, Christian P ^a   Burford, Caroline ^b   Le Jeune, Ivan ^c   Masterton Smith, Charlotte ^d   Ward, David ^e  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b GLAN CLWYD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^d ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e SOUTH LONDON AND MAUDSLEY NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute medical units; Clinical Frailty Scale; NEWS; Performance; SAMBA '13

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CLINICAL FRAILTY SCALE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL BED UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; PERFORMANCE; QUALITY CONTROL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SECONDARY ANALYSIS; SOCIETY FOR ACUTE MEDICINE; BENCHMARKING; CLINICAL AUDIT; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BENCHMARKING; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; TRIAGE;

EID: 85003049405     PISSN: 14702118     EISSN: 14734893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7861/clinmedicine.15-1-15     Document Type: Article

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