Mortality for Publicly Reported Conditions and Overall Hospital Mortality Rates
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Mortality for publicly reported conditions and overall hospital mortality rates.
IMPORTANCE Federal efforts about public reporting and quality improvement programs for hospitals have focused primarily on a small number of medical conditions. Whether performance on these conditions accurately predicts the quality of broader hospital care is unknown. OBJECTIVE To determine whether mortality rates for publicly reported medical conditions are correlated with hospitals' overal...
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عنوان ژورنال: JAMA Internal Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2168-6106
DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.7049