Relationship Between Medicare’s Hospital Compare Performance Measures and Mortality Rates

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Hospital performance measures predict small differences in hospital risk-adjusted mortality rates. Efforts should be made to develop performance measures that are tightly linked to patient outcomes.

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Werner et al. (Tue,) studied this question.

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