A two-stage estimation of hospital quali
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Chew Lian Chua; Alfons Palangkaraya; Jongsay Yong
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Article
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2010
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract This paper proposes a method of deriving a quality indicator for hospitals using mortality outcome measures. The method aggregates any number of mortality outcomes into a single indicator via a twoβstage procedure. In the first stage, mortality outcomes are riskβadjusted using a system