Adherence to methodological standards in research using the National Inpatient Sample

JAMA - Journal of the American Medical Association

Volumn 318, Issue 20, 2017, Pages 2011-2018

  Khera, Rohan ^a   Angraal, Suveen ⁱ   Couch, Tyler ^a   Welsh, John W ⁱ   Nallamothu, Brahmajee K ^c   Girotra, Saket ^d   Chan, Paul S ^e,f   Krumholz, Harlan M ^b,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^e Saint Luke's Mid America Heart and Vascular Institute   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI KANSAS CITY   (United States)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDICARE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; GOVERNMENT; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DATASETS AS TOPIC; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INPATIENTS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR HEALTHCARE RESEARCH AND QUALITY;

EID: 85037054347     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2017.17653     Document Type: Article

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