Impact of early death recording on international comparison of acute myocardial infarction mortality – administrative hospital data study using the example of Germany and the United States

Background In-hospital mortality from acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is widely used in international comparisons as an indicator of health system performance. Because of the high risk of early death after AMI, international comparisons may be biased by differences in the recording of early death...

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Published in:	BMC health services research Vol. 24; no. 1; pp. 593 - 10
Main Authors:	Nimptsch, Ulrike, Mansky, Thomas, Busse, Reinhard
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	London BioMed Central 07.05.2024 BioMed Central Ltd Springer Nature B.V BMC
Subjects:	Acute myocardial infarction Administrative data Adult Aged Aged, 80 and over Comparative analysis Diagnosis related groups Diagnosis-Related Groups - statistics & numerical data DRGs Emergency medical care Emergency Service, Hospital - statistics & numerical data Fatalities Female Germany - epidemiology Health Administration Health care policy Health Informatics Health insurance Heart attack Heart attacks Hospital Hospital Mortality Hospitals Humans International aspects International comparisons Length of stay Male Medical care Medical coding Medical records Medicare Medicine Medicine & Public Health Middle Aged Mortality Myocardial Infarction - mortality Nursing Research Patient outcomes Patients Public Health Quality indicator Quality management Statistics United States - epidemiology United States Germany Serbia United States > US Administrative data Hospital Acute myocardial infarction Mortality Quality indicator
ISSN:	1472-6963, 1472-6963
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