February 14, 2018Open Access
Evaluation of hospital outcomes: the relation between length-of-stay, readmission, and mortality in a large international administrative database
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.