The failure of four bootstrap procedures for estimating confidence intervals for predicted-to-expected ratios for hospital profiling

Background Healthcare provider profiling involves the comparison of outcomes between patients cared for by different healthcare providers. An important component of provider profiling is risk-adjustment so that providers that care for sicker patients are not unfairly penalized. One method for provid...

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Published inBMC medical research methodology Vol. 22; no. 1; pp. 1 - 18
Main Author Austin, Peter C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London BioMed Central Ltd 14.10.2022
BioMed Central
BMC
Subjects
Confidence intervals
Hospital profiling
Hospital report cards
Medical research
Mortality
Multilevel analysis
Patients
Performance evaluation
Probability
Random effects models
Ratios
Sample variance
Simulation
Canada
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