Amenable mortality revisited: the AMIEHS study
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Amenable mortality revisited: the AMIEHS study.
OBJECTIVES There is a renewed interest in health system indicators. In 1976 a measure of quality of healthcare, amenable mortality, was introduced by Rutstein. This indicator is based on the concept that deaths from certain causes should not occur in the presence of timely and effective healthcare. In the project "Amenable mortality in the European Union: toward better indicators for the effect...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gaceta Sanitaria
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0213-9111
DOI: 10.1016/j.gaceta.2012.08.004