Comparison of three different methods for risk adjustment in neonatal medicine

• Main Authors: Mark Adams (Author), Julia Braun (Author), Hans Ulrich Bucher (Author), Milo Alan Puhan (Author), Dirk Bassler (Author), Viktor Von Wyl (Author), The Swiss Neonatal Network (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2017-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Quality improvement in health care requires identification of areas in need of improvement by comparing processes and patient outcomes within and between health care providers. It is critical to adjust for different case-mix and outcome risks of patient populations but it is curr...