What Do Mortality Studies Reveal about Hospital Volume, Teaching Status, And Ownership?
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care
- Vol. 6 (2) , 239-252
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0266462300000763
Abstract
Numerous recent studies use risk-adjusted patient mortality rates to measure hospital performance, focusing on such hospital characteristics as volume of patients, teaching status, and ownership. This article summarizes the empirical findings of these studies, critiques their methods and models, and offers recommendations for overcoming several obstacles to meaningful correlation of patient outcomes and provider performance.Keywords
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