The use of linked data to develop and validate measures of variation in mortality and readmissions for public reporting purposes in New South Wales, Australia

ABSTRACT Objectives To investigate variation across 78 New South Wales public hospitals, in mortality in the 30 days following admission and in returns to acute care (readmissions) in the 30 days following discharge for acute myocardial infarction, ischaemic stroke, heart failure, pneumonia, hip fr...

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Main Authors: Kim Sutherland, Sadaf Marashi-Pour, Huei-Yang Chen, Jean-Frédéric Lévesque
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Swansea University 2017-04-01
Series:International Journal of Population Data Science
Online Access:https://ijpds.org/article/view/311