HCFA's Medicare mortality statistics for a New Jersey hospital.
We assessed the severity of illness in 40 Medicare patients with an acute myocardial infarction to determine whether HCFA's observed-to-predicted mortality ratio was related to quality of care or severity of illness. The authors present a study from a New Jersey hospital.
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Jersey City Medical Center, NJ 07304, USA.
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D000208:Acute Disease; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D005260:Female; D006761:Hospitals / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D006278:Medicare / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000401:mortality*; D009515:New Jersey / Q000453:epidemiology; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D014481:United States