“America's Best Hospitals” in the Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction
Wang OJ, Wang Y, Lichtman JH, Bradley EH, Normand SL, Krumholz HM. “America's Best Hospitals” in the Treatment of Acute Myocardial Infarction. JAMA Internal Medicine 2007, 167: 1345-1351. PMID: 17620526, DOI: 10.1001/archinte.167.13.1345.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAcute myocardial infarctionStandardized mortality ratioBest HospitalsMyocardial infarctionAmerica's Best HospitalsTreatment of AMIMedicare administrative dataHeart surgeryMortality ratioLower riskMortality rateHospitalQuartile distributionPatientsRSMRInfarctionAdministrative dataOne-thirdHierarchical regression modelsRSMRsRegression modelsTreatmentSurgeryAdmissionQuartile