Mortality Rate Estimation and Standardization for Public Reporting: Medicare’s Hospital Compare
面向公开报告的死亡率估计与标准化：Medicare 医院比较
Bayesian models are increasingly fit to large administrative datasets and then used to make individualized recommendations. In particular, Medicare’s Hospital Compare webpage provides information to patients about specific hospital mortality rates for a heart attack or acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Hospital Compare’s current recommendations are based on a random-effects logit model with a random hospital indicator and patient risk factors. Except for the largest…