Evaluation of hospital outcomes: the relation between length-of-stay, readmission, and mortality in a large international administrative database

• Main Authors: Hester F. Lingsma (Author), Alex Bottle (Author), Steve Middleton (Author), Job Kievit (Author), Ewout W. Steyerberg (Author), Perla J. Marang-van de Mheen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2018-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Hospital mortality, readmission and length of stay (LOS) are commonly used measures for quality of care. We aimed to disentangle the correlations between these interrelated measures and propose a new way of combining them to evaluate the quality of hospital care. Methods We analy...