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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 Mheen
Published 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.
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