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15632891

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-1-5
pubmed:abstractText
Hospital report cards for outcomes following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are being produced with increasing frequency. Implicit in the statistical methods used is the fact that hospitals are being compared with an average hospital. Prior research has demonstrated that institutional characteristics such as a high annual volume of AMI patients and academic status are associated with improved outcomes. This raises the important issue of what is an appropriate benchmark against which hospitals should be compared. The objective of the current study was to determine whether the number of hospitals identified as mortality outliers depended upon the benchmark against which hospitals are compared.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1097-6744
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
148
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1041-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2004
pubmed:articleTitle
Impact of the choice of benchmark on the conclusions of hospital report cards.
pubmed:affiliation
Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. peter.austin@ices.on.ca <peter.austin@ices.on.ca>
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't