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- Title
An administrative claims model for profiling hospital 30-day mortality rates for pneumonia patients.
- Authors
Bratzler, Dale W; Normand, Sharon-Lise T; Wang, Yun; O'Donnell, Walter J; Metersky, Mark; Han, Lein F; Rapp, Michael T; Krumholz, Harlan M
- Abstract
Outcome measures for patients hospitalized with pneumonia may complement process measures in characterizing quality of care. We sought to develop and validate a hierarchical regression model using Medicare claims data that produces hospital-level, risk-standardized 30-day mortality rates useful for public reporting for patients hospitalized with pneumonia.
- Publication
PloS one, 2011, Vol 6, Issue 4, pe17401
- ISSN
1932-6203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0017401