The Limited Utility of Ranking Hospitals Based on Their Colon Surgery Infection Rates

BACKGROUND: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) use colon surgical site infection (SSI) rates to rank hospitals and apply financial penalties. The CMS’ risk-adjustment model omits potentially impactful variables that might disadvantage hospitals with complex surgical populations. ME...

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Autores principales: Caroff, Daniel A, Wang, Rui, Zhang, Zilu, Wolf, Robert, Septimus, Ed, Harris, Anthony D, Jackson, Sarah S, Poland, Russell E, Hickok, Jason, Huang, Susan S, Platt, Richard
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7823072/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31918439
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa012

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