Comparing routine administrative data with registry data for assessing quality of hospital care in patients with myocardial infarction using deterministic record linkage

• Main Authors: Birga Maier (Author), Katrin Wagner (Author), Steffen Behrens (Author), Leonhard Bruch (Author), Reinhard Busse (Author), Dagmar Schmidt (Author), Helmut Schühlen (Author), Roland Thieme (Author), Heinz Theres (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2016-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Assessment of quality of care in patients with myocardial infarction (MI) should be based on data that effectively enable determination of quality. With the need to simplify measurement techniques, the question arises whether routine data can be used for this purpose. We therefor...