The Hospital Compare Mortality Model and the Volume–Outcome Relationship

OBJECTIVE: We ask whether Medicare's Hospital Compare random effects model correctly assesses acute myocardial infarction (AMI) hospital mortality rates when there is a volume–outcome relationship. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING: Medicare claims on 208,157 AMI patients admitted in 3,629 acute care...

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Main Authors: Silber, Jeffrey H, Rosenbaum, Paul R, Brachet, Tanguy J, Ross, Richard N, Bressler, Laura J, Even-Shoshan, Orit, Lorch, Scott A, Volpp, Kevin G
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: Blackwell Science Inc 2010
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Quality and Outcomes
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2965498/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20579125
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6773.2010.01130.x
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