Health services research
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Access to high quality medical care is an important determinant of health outcomes, but the quality of care is difficult to determine. ⋯ PRIDIT allows us to rank hospitals with respect to quality of care using process measures and demographic attributes of the hospitals. This method is an alternative to the use of clinical outcome measures in measuring hospital quality. Hospital quality measures should take into account the differential value of different quality indicators, including hospital "demographic" variables.