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Variations in hospital standardised mortality ratios (HSMR) as a result of frequent readmissions

BACKGROUND: We investigated the impact that variations in the frequency of readmissions had upon a hospital's standardised mortality ratio (HSMR). An adapted HSMR model was used in the study. Our calculations were based on the admissions of 70 hospitals in the Netherlands during the years 2005...

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Autores principales: van den Bosch, Wim F, Spreeuwenberg, Peter, Wagner, Cordula
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3372422/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22475458
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-91