Ranking hospitals for outcomes in total hip replacement - administrative data with or without additional patient surveys? - Part 1: Administrative data

Ranking hospitals for outcomes in total hip replacement - administrative data with or without additional patient surveys? - Part 1: Administrative data

Background: Many hospital rankings rely on the frequency of adverse outcomes and are based on administrative data. In the study presented here, we tried to find out, to what extent available administrative data of German Sickness Funds allow for an adequate hospital ranking and compared this with ra...

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Main Authors: Dörning, Hans, Bitzer, Eva Maria, Lorenz, Christoph, Neusser, Silke, Schäfer, Thomas
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: German Medical Science GMS Publishing House 2007-03-01
Series:GMS Medizinische Informatik, Biometrie und Epidemiologie
Subjects:
arthroplasty
replacement
hip/adverse effects and mortality
hospitals
community/statistics & numerical data
outcome assessment (health care)
treatment outcome
quality indicators
health care
Online Access:http://www.egms.de/en/journals/mibe/2007-3/mibe000056.shtml

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