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Life Expectancy after Myocardial Infarction, According to Hospital Performance
Author(s) -
Emily M. Bucholz,
Neel M. Butala,
Shuangge Ma,
SharonLise T. Normand,
Harlan M. Krumholz
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1513223
Subject(s) - medicine , life expectancy , myocardial infarction , mortality rate , emergency medicine , proportional hazards model , case mix index , population , environmental health , nursing
Thirty-day risk-standardized mortality rates after acute myocardial infarction are commonly used to evaluate and compare hospital performance. However, it is not known whether differences among hospitals in the early survival of patients with acute myocardial infarction are associated with differences in long-term survival.

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