Research Evidence on the Validity of Risk-Adjusted Mortality Rate as a Measure of Hospital Quality of Care
Thomas and Hofer
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Pennsylvania's Focus on Heart Attack -- Grading the Scorecard
Jollis and Romano
NEJM 1998;338:983-987.
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Mortality and Length of Stay in Teaching vs Nonteaching Hospitals
Blumberg
JAMA 1997;278:2062-2062.
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Declines in Hospital Mortality Associated with a Regional Initiative to Measure Hospital Performance
Rosenthal et al.
American Journal of Medical Quality 1997;12:103-112.
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Analysis and Comparison of Operator-Specific Outcomes in Interventional Cardiology : From a Multicenter Database of 4860 Quality-Controlled Procedures
Ellis et al.
Circulation 1996;93:431-439.
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Evaluation of the Complication Rate as a Measure of Quality of Care in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery
Silber et al.
JAMA 1995;274:317-323.
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Risk Adjustment Methods Can Affect Perceptions of Outcomes
Iezzoni et al.
American Journal of Medical Quality 1994;9:43-48.
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Variation in Practice for Discretionary Admissions: Impact on Estimates of Quality of Hospital Care
Miller et al.
JAMA 1994;271:1493-1498.
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The Use and Abuse of Practice Profiles
Kassirer
NEJM 1994;330:634-636.
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Can Administrative Data be Used to Compare the Quality of Health Care?
Romano
Med Care Res Rev 1993;50:451-477.
A Measure of Mortality Risk for Elderly Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction
Van Ruiswyk et al.
Med Decis Making 1993;13:152-160.
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Relationship Between Malpractice Claims and Cesarean Delivery
Localio et al.
JAMA 1993;269:366-373.
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Bias Estimates of Mortality Using Medis-Groups
Brewster and Throop
JAMA 1991;266:2704-2704.
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Bias Estimates of Mortality Using MedisGroups
Hartz and Van Ruiswyk
JAMA 1991;266:2704-2705.
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'Black Box' Medical Information Systems: A Technology Needing Assessment
Iezzoni
JAMA 1991;265:3006-3007.
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