▪ Abstract Electronically available administrative data are increasingly used by public health
researchers and planners. The validity of the data source has been established, and its …

Despite the perennial popularity of readmission as an indicator of the quality of hospital
care, the empiric evidence linking it to process-of-care problems during the prior …

Importance Patients with advanced-stage cancer are receiving increasingly aggressive
medical care near death, despite growing concerns that this reflects poor-quality care …

Background—The relationship between admission glucose levels and outcomes in older
diabetic and nondiabetic patients with acute myocardial infarction is not well defined …

Background Anemia may have adverse effects in patients with coronary artery disease.
However, the benefit of blood transfusion in elderly patients with acute myocardial infarction …

Background One of the national mortality databases in the US is the Beneficiary
Identification and Record Locator Subsystem (BIRLS) Death File that contains death dates of …

Abstract The National Cancer Institute and the Health Care Financing Administration share a
strong research interest in cancer costs, access to cancer prevention and treatment services …

Background This study investigated whether differences in quality of medical care might
explain a portion of the excess mortality associated with mental disorders in the year after …

Background—Although atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common complication of acute myocardial
infarction (MI), patient characteristics and association with outcomes remain poorly defined …

Objective: To determine whether the quality of care during a hospital stay is associated with
unplanned readmission within 14 days. Design: Case-control study. Setting: 12 Veterans …