A Spurious Correlation between Hospital Mortality and Complication Rates: The Importance of Severity Adjustment

Medical Care

Volumn 35, Issue SUPPL., 1997, Pages

  Silber, Jeffrey H ^a,c   Rosenbaum, Paul R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complication; Construct validity; Failure to rescue; Mortality; Outcomes; Quality of care; Severity of illness

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0031252527     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005650-199710001-00011     Document Type: Article

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