Chua, Chew Lian; Palangkaraya, Alfons; Yong, Jongsay - In: Health Economics 19 (2010) 12, pp. 1404-1424
This paper proposes a method of deriving a quality indicator for hospitals using mortality outcome measures. The method aggregates any number of mortality outcomes into a single indicator via a two-stage procedure. In the first stage, mortality outcomes are risk‐adjusted using a system of...