Comparison of Epithor clinical national database and medico-administrative database to identify the influence of case-mix on the estimation of hospital outliers.
Alain BernardPierre-Emmanuel FalcozPascal Antoine ThomasCaroline RiveraLaurent BrouchetJean Marc BasteMarc PuyraveauCatherine QuantinPierre Benoit PagesMarcel DahanPublished in: PloS one (2019)
We found that most hospitals provided Epithor with high-quality data, but other hospitals needed to improve the quality of the information provided. Quality control is essential for this type of database and necessary for the unbiased adjustment of regression models.