Comparing and Monitoring Risk-Adjusted Hospital Performance Measures: A Weighted Estimating Equations Approach

Background. There is a great deal of interest in evaluating hospital performance in order to monitor and improve health care quality. Increasingly, risk-adjusted performance measures are available to the public and statistical approaches for estimating these measures are considered. Some methods in...

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Main Authors: Patricia Cooper Barfoot, R. Jock MacKay, Stefan H. Steiner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2018-04-01
Series:MDM Policy & Practice
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/2381468318761027