Hospital mortality: when failure is not a good measure of success
- 15 July 2008
- journal article
- review article
- Published by CMA Impact Inc. in CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association Journal
- Vol. 179 (2) , 153-157
- https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.080010
Abstract
Mortality for specific conditions and procedures has figured prominently among outcomes-based performance measures.[1][1]–[3][2] However, in recent years there has been renewed interest in overall hospital mortality, specifically the hospital standardized mortality ratio (HSMR) ([Box 1][3]).[4][4This publication has 37 references indexed in Scilit:
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