The relationship between Medicare's process of care quality measures and mortality.

Using Medicare inpatient claims and Hospital Compare process of care quality data from the period 2004DS2006, we estimate two model specifications to test for the presence of correlational and causal relationships between hospital process of care performance measures and risk-adjusted (RA) 30-day mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Inquiry (00469580) Vol. 46; no. 3; pp. 274 - 291
Main Authors: Ryan AM, Burgess JF Jr., Tompkins CP, Wallack SS
Format: Journal Article
Published: Sage Publications Inc. Fall2009
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