Reliability of in-hospital mortality as a quality indicator in clinical quality registries. A case study in an intensive care quality register.

Objectives: Errors in the registration or extraction of patient outcome data, such as in-hospital mortality, may lower the reliability of the quality indicator that uses this (partly) incorrect data. Our aim was to measure the reliability of in-hospital mortality registration in the Dutch National I...

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Published in:	Methods of Information in Medicine Vol. 52; no. 5; pp. 432 - 441
Main Authors:	Koetsier, A, Peek, N, de Jonge, E, Dongelmans, D, van Berkel, G, de Keizer, N
Format:	research Journal Article
Published:	Thieme Medical Publishing Inc. 2013
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost