Judging hospitals by severity-adjusted mortality rates: the influence of the severity-adjustment method.

OBJECTIVES: This research examined whether judgments about a hospital's risk-adjusted mortality performance are affected by the severity-adjustment method. METHODS: Data came from 100 acute care hospitals nationwide and 11880 adults admitted in 1991 for acute myocardial infarction. Ten severity...

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Main Authors: Iezzoni, L I, Ash, A S, Shwartz, M, Daley, J, Hughes, J S, Mackiernan, Y D
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: 1996
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1380647/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8876505
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