Exploring relationships between in-hospital mortality and hospital case volume using random forest: results of a cohort study based on a nationwide sample of German hospitals, 2016–2018

Abstract Background Relationships between in-hospital mortality and case volume were investigated for various patient groups in many empirical studies with mixed results. Typically, those studies relied on (semi-)parametric statistical models like logistic regression. Those models impose strong assu...

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Main Authors: Martin Roessler, Felix Walther, Maria Eberlein-Gonska, Peter C. Scriba, Ralf Kuhlen, Jochen Schmitt, Olaf Schoffer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2022-01-01
Series:BMC Health Services Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-07414-z