The failure of four bootstrap procedures for estimating confidence intervals for predicted-to-expected ratios for hospital profiling

Abstract Background Healthcare provider profiling involves the comparison of outcomes between patients cared for by different healthcare providers. An important component of provider profiling is risk-adjustment so that providers that care for sicker patients are not unfairly penalized. One method f...

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Published in:	BMC Medical Research Methodology
Main Author:	Peter C. Austin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMC 2022-10-01
Subjects:	Hospital profiling Hospital report cards Random effects models Multilevel analysis
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-022-01739-x