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Using clinical variables and drug prescription data to control for confounding in outcome comparisons between hospitals
BACKGROUND: Hospital discharge records are an essential source of information when comparing health outcomes among hospitals; however, they contain limited information on acute clinical conditions. Doubts remain as to whether the addition of clinical and drug consumption information would improve th...
Autores principales: | Colais, Paola, Di Martino, Mirko, Fusco, Danilo, Davoli, Marina, Aylin, Paul, Perucci, Carlo Alberto |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4209232/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25339263 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-014-0495-3 |
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