Evaluation of hospital outcomes: the relation between length-of-stay, readmission, and mortality in a large international administrative database.
Hester Floor LingsmaAlex BottleSteve MiddletonJob KievitEwout W SteyerbergPerla J Marang-van de MheenPublished in: BMC health services research (2018)
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.