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SUBMITTER: Lee KC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4693841 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lee Kris C L KC Sethuraman Kannan K Yong Jongsay J
Health services research 20150317 6
<h4>Objective</h4>To evaluate the relationship between hospital volume and outcome by focusing on alternative measures of volume that capture specialization and overall throughput of hospitals.<h4>Data sources/study setting</h4>Hospital administrative data from the state of Victoria, Australia; data contain 1,798,474 admitted episodes reported by 135 public and private acute-care hospitals.<h4>Study design</h4>This study contrasts the volume-outcome relationship using regression models with diff ...[more]