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Hospital mortality: when failure is not a good measure of success

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KG Shojania, AJFMD MSc - Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2008 - Can Med Assoc
Proposed strategies to measure and improve hospital performance efforts have
included the establishment of national patient safety agencies, 11 mandatory
accreditation, 12 financial incentives 13 and publicly reported performance ...
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Intelligent Information: A National System for Monitoring Clinical Performance.


A Bottle, P Aylin - Health Services Research, 2008 - pt.wkhealth.com
Objective: To use statistical process control charts to monitor in-hospital
outcomes at the hospital level for a wide range of procedures and diagnoses.
... Data Sources: Routine English hospital admissions data.
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Measuring and explaining mortality in Dutch hospitals; The Hospital Standardized …


R Heijink, X Koolman, D Pieter, A van der … - BMC health services research, 2008 - biomedcentral.com
HSMRs were estimated using data from the complete population of discharged
patients during 2003 to 2005. We used binary logistic regression to indirectly
standardize for differences in case-mix. Out of a total of 101 hospitals 89 ...
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Should we use large scale healthcare interventions without clear evidence that benefits …


B Crump - British Medical Journal, 2008 - bmj.com
Large scale health intervention covers a wide range of circumstances, including
the use of a new drug or therapeutic procedure. In this case we have developed
over the past 50 years a widely accepted understanding of the nature of the ...
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In defence of the hospital standardized mortality ratio


B Jarman - HealthcarePapers, 2008 - longwoods.com
Abstract: This commentary addresses many of the points made by Penfold and
colleagues in the lead article of this issue of Healthcare Papers, including the
relationships between hospital standardized mortality ratios (HSMRs) and ...
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Measuring the quality of hospital care


J Wright, KG Shojania - British Medical Journal, 2009 - bmj.com
Measures of risk may not be uniformly related to patient outcomes across all
constituencies, a point sometimes called the "constant risk fallacy." 10 For
example car ownership might seem like a reasonable indicator of financial ...
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Using quality indicators to improve hospital care: a review of the literature


M De Vos, W Graafmans, M Kooistra, B … - International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 2009 - ISQHC
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Do Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratios Measure Patient Safety? HSMRs in the Winnipeg …


RB Penfold, S Dean, W Flemons, M Moffatt - HealthcarePapers, 2008 - longwoods.com
The Canadian Institute for Health Information began publishing hospital
standardized mortality ratio (HSMR) data for select Canadian hospitals in
November 2007. This paper describes the experience of the Winnipeg Regional ...
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Centralization of Esophageal Cancer Surgery: Does It Improve Clinical Outcome?

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MWJM Wouters, HE Karim-Kos, S le Cessie, … - Annals of Surgical Oncology, 2009 - Springer
MWJM Wouters, MD 1,7 , HE Karim-Kos, PhD 2 , S. le Cessie, PhD 2,3 , BPL
Wijnhoven, MD, PhD 4 , ... LPS Stassen, MD, PhD 5 , WH Steup, MD, PhD 6 , HW
Tilanus, MD, PhD 4 , and RAEM Tollenaar, MD, ... 1 Department of Surgery, ...
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[PDF] Measuring and reporting mortality in hospital patients


D Ben-Tovim, R Woodman, JE Harrison, S … - aihw.gov.au
Page 1. Australian Institute of Health and Welfare Canberra Cat. no. HSE
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