Angela F Chambers

Biographic Data

ID5542460
NAMEAngela F Chambers
GIVEN NAMESAngela F
FAMILY NAMEChambers
SIGNATURECHAMBERS A F
AFFILIATIONSWashington University Medical Center
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS2
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR2
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1989
H-INDEX0

  • Psychiatric Severity of Illness

    Susan D Horn, Angela F Chambers et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1989

    This study was undertaken to determine if a measure of severity of illness for psychiatric patients, the Psychiatric Severity of Illness Index, could produce psychiatric case mix groups that are more homogeneous with respect to resource use than the diagnosis-related groups (DRGs). Psychiatric Severity of Illness data were collected on 1,672 cases in ten hospitals of various types. Of these cases, 1,418 had enough information in the medical recor…

  • Severity of Illness Within DRGs

    Susan D Horn, Roger A Horn et al.ARTICLEMedical Care1986

    The authors assess the ability of the Severity of Illness Index to explain variability of resource use within each DRG. The data came from 15 hospitals, all of which had a HCFA DRG case mix index greater than 1. The data set comprised approximately 106,000 discharges, for which discharge abstract data, financial data, and Severity of Illness data were available. To pool the data over the 15 hospitals, the authors converted all charges to costs an…