'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"
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