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Title
The Hospital Compare mortality model and the volume-outcome relationship.
Authors
Silber, Jeffrey H; Rosenbaum, Paul R; Brachet, Tanguy J; Ross, Richard N; Bressler, Laura J; Even-Shoshan, Orit; Lorch, Scott A; Volpp, Kevin G
Abstract
We ask whether Medicare's Hospital Compare random effects model correctly assesses acute myocardial infarction (AMI) hospital mortality rates when there is a volume-outcome relationship.