Population
1985 MEDPAR data from 657 hospitals
Comparison
Five different risk-adjusted mortality indices… vs RAMIs based upon inhospital deaths only
Design
Other
Authors
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Time window choice alters teaching vs nonteaching hospital mortality rankings; leaves open optimal RAMI metric for performance assessment.
The choice of time window for mortality measurement (inhospital vs varying post-discharge windows) significantly alters the comparative mortality performance of teaching versus nonteaching hospitals.
Fleming et al. (1991) studied this question.
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