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The Impact of Data Collection Guidelines on Predicting In-Hospital Mortality

IEZZONI, LISA I. MD, MSC^*; HOTCHKIN, ELIZABETH K. BA^*; ASH, ARLENE S. PHD^†; SHWARTZ, MICHAEL PHD^‡; MACKIERNAN, YEVGENIA BA^*

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^*From the Division of General Medicine and Primary Care Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School Beth Israel Hospital, the Charles A. Dana Research Institute, and the Harvard Thorndike Laboratory, Boston, Massachusetts.

^†From the Health Care Research Unit Section of General Internal Medicine Evans Memorial Department of Clinical Research and Medicine Boston University Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts.

^‡From the School of Management, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.

Medical Care 31(3):p 277, March 1993.