Liu, Yang; Traskin, Mikhail; Lorch, Scott; George, Edward; … - In: Health Care Management Science 18 (2015) 1, pp. 58-66
A commonly used method for evaluating a hospital’s performance on an outcome is to compare the hospital’s observed outcome rate to the hospital’s expected outcome rate given its patient (case) mix and service. The process of calculating the hospital’s expected outcome rate given its...