Physician age and outcomes in elderly patients in hospital in the US: Observational study

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 357, Issue , 2017, Pages

  Tsugawa, Yusuke ^a,b   Newhouse, Joseph P ^a,c,d,e   Zaslavsky, Alan M ^c   Blumenthal, Daniel M ^f   Jena, Anupam B ^c,e,f  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^f MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INTERNIST; MALE; MEDICARE; MORTALITY RATE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PHYSICIAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEPSIS; UNITED STATES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; PHYSICIANS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85019574665     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.j1797     Document Type: Article

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