Evaluation of hospital outcomes: the relation between length-of-stay, readmission, and mortality in a large international administrative database

Evaluation of hospital outcomes: the relation between length-of-stay, readmission, and mortality in a large international administrative database

Abstract Background Hospital mortality, readmission and length of stay (LOS) are commonly used measures for quality of care. We aimed to disentangle the correlations between these interrelated measures and propose a new way of combining them to evaluate the quality of hospital care. Methods We analy...

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Main Authors: Hester F. Lingsma, Alex Bottle, Steve Middleton, Job Kievit, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Perla J. Marang-van de Mheen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-02-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
Subjects:
Benchmarking
Quality of care
Outcomes
Ordinal models
Composite outcomes
Administrative data
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12913-018-2916-1

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