American journal of public health

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• Am J Public Health · Mar 1997

  Weak associations between hospital mortality rates for individual diagnoses: implications for profiling hospital quality.

  This study examined the consistency of hospital mortality rates across different diagnoses. ⋯ The present results indicate that hospital mortality rates for individual diagnoses are weakly associated. Thus, it may not be valid to generalize conclusions about hospital performance from a single diagnosis.

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