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Comparing AMI Mortality Among Hospitals in Patients 65 Years of Age and Older : Evaluating Methods of Risk Adjustment
1999
Circulation
Background-Interest in the reporting of risk-adjusted outcomes for patients with acute myocardial infarction is growing. A useful risk-adjustment model must balance parsimony and ease of data collection with predictive ability. Methods and Results-From our analysis of 82 359 patients Ն65 years of age admitted with acute myocardial infarction to 2401 hospitals, we derived a parsimonious model that predicts 30-day mortality. The model was validated on a similar group of 78 699 patients from 2386
doi:10.1161/01.cir.99.23.2986
pmid:10368115
fatcat:n5com5rptzf6vlhm4xxr2d5lbe