Standardized hospital mortality ratios that do not account for variation in admission practice are biased, requiring correction for selection bias to produce valid measures of hospital quality.
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Hospital mortality ratios may mislead without admission adjustment; leaves open validation of bias-corrected quality metrics.
M. Miller (1994) studied this question.
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