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February 14, 2018BMC Health Services Research203 citationsOpen Access

Evaluation of hospital outcomes: the relation between length-of-stay, readmission, and mortality in a large international administrative database

HLHester F. LingsmaABAlex BottleSMSteve Middleton

Structured PICO

Does a composite measure combining length-of-stay, readmission, and mortality provide a more comprehensive and reliable view of hospital performance than individual indicators?

P
Population
Patients in a large international administrative database
I
Intervention
Proposed composite measure combining length-of-stay, readmission, and mortality in an ordinal fashion
C
Comparator
Component indicators (length-of-stay, readmission, and mortality individually)
O
Outcome
Hospital performancecomposite

A novel composite measure combining length-of-stay, readmission, and mortality may provide a more reliable assessment of hospital performance.

Abstract

Correlations between different outcome measures are complex and differ between hospital- and patient-level. The proposed composite measure combines three outcomes in an ordinal fashion for a more comprehensive and reliable view of hospital performance than its component indicators.

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Lingsma et al. (2018) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d898508c03fbaff8bef9c5https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-018-2916-1
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