What is it about?
Everyone assumes that standardized hospital mortality models actually measure the impact of hospital process on in-hospital deaths. Re-analysis of actual data for English hospitals questions this assumption.
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Why is it important?
It would seem that the all-cause mortality in the community surrounding a hospital drives the in-hospital mortality and not vice versa.
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Part of a series of papers seeking to unravel what current models for hospital mortality are actually measuring, see http://www.hcaf.biz/2010/Publications_Full.pdf
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: Clear the decks of the Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator, British Journal of Healthcare Management, June 2016, Mark Allen Group,
DOI: 10.12968/bjhc.2016.22.6.335.
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