'Discharge bias' disproportionally hurts large and academic hospitals

'Discharge bias' disproportionally hurts large and academic hospitals

"State and national programs that use in-hospital mortality to benchmark hospitals should note how discharge bias unfairly disadvantages certain types of hospitals," concluded Dr. Reineck. "Discharge bias must be accounted for to prevent unfair performance assessments."
Future studies are planned to assess the effects that using this measure in public reporting has on outcomes of ICU patients"