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failure to rescue: a standalone construct

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Health services research

death after a treatable complication, used to compare hospital quality.

In health services research, failure to rescue refers to death after a treatable complication, used to compare hospital quality. This meaning comes from Silber (1992) in Medical Care.[1]

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complication2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs failure4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs quality6 fields · 13 citationsjingle · one name, six constructs

References

Silber, J. H., Williams, S. V., Krakauer, H., & Schwartz, S. (1992). Hospital and Patient Characteristics Associated With Death After Surgery: A Study of Adverse Occurrence and Failure to Rescue. Medical Care, 30(7), 615-629. https://doi.org/10.1097/00005650-199207000-00004

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