Effect of choice of estimation method on inter-hospital mortality rate comparisons

Medical Care

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 458-465

  Kipnis, Patricia ^a   Escobar, Gabriel J ^b,c,d   Draper, David ^e  

^a Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc   (United States)

^b DIVISION OF RESEARCH   (United States)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

^e University of California   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixed and random effects; Generalized linear mixed model; Hierarchical Bayes; Hierarchical models; Individual and aggregatelevel data; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Risk adjustment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BENCHMARKING; COHORT STUDIES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77951623293     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e3181d5fe8f     Document Type: Article

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