The Measure and Mismeasure of Hospital Quality: Appropriate Risk-Adjustment Methods in Comparing Hospitals

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• Publication year

  1995

• Venue

  Annals of Internal Medicine

• Publication date

  1995-01-15

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Business

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.7326/0003-4819-122-2-199501150-00013PMID 7992991
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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