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Evaluation of hospital outcomes: the relation between length-of-stay, readmission, and mortality in a large international administrative database
BACKGROUND: Hospital mortality, readmission and length of stay (LOS) are commonly used measures for quality of care. We aimed to disentangle the correlations between these interrelated measures and propose a new way of combining them to evaluate the quality of hospital care. METHODS: We analyzed adm...
Autores principales: | Lingsma, Hester F., Bottle, Alex, Middleton, Steve, Kievit, Job, Steyerberg, Ewout W., Marang-van de Mheen, Perla J. |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2018
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5813333/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29444713 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-2916-1 |
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