Health services research
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Health services research · Oct 2014
Comparative StudyUsing estimated true safety event rates versus flagged safety event rates: does it change hospital profiling and payment?
To assess whether use of the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) composite measure versus modified composite measures leads to changes in hospital profiles and payments. ⋯ Changes in hospital profiles and payments would be substantial for some hospitals if the PSI composite score used weights reflecting the relative prevalence of true versus flagged events.