Risk Adjustment for Measuring Health Care Outcomes, 3rd edition |
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| Authors: | Thomas J. William |
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| Affiliation: | Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, USA, E-mail: jwthomas@usm.maine.edu |
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| Abstract: | Lisa I. Iezzoni (editor) Hardback, 508 pp, August 2003, ISBN 1-56793-207-X, $76.50, AcademyHealth/HAP(http://www.ache.org/hap.cfm) Lisa Iezzoni and colleagues produced the first edition of RiskAdjustment for Measuring Health Care Outcomes nearly 10 yearsago. At that time, payers and researchers were concerned withrisk adjustment primarily as a tool for hospital payment andfor assessing hospital performance. Although the Health CareFinancing Administration had ceased issuing Medicare risk-adjustedmortality rate reports, several other hospital performance reportingprojects were then underway, such as New York Statescoronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery mortality project,Pennsylvanias hospital outcomes reporting project, andthe Cleveland Health Quality |
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