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Composite Measures For Predicting Surgical Mortality In The Hospital
Health Affairs, 07/28/09

Dimick JB et al. – Using national Medicare data for six surgical operations (covering the years 2003–2006), we created a composite measure based on these two quality indicators. It was more effective than the individual measures. Such measures would be useful for helping patients and payers identify low–mortality hospitals for major surgery.

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