Global quantitative indices reflecting provider process-of-care: data-base derivation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Controversy has attended the relationship between risk-adjusted mortality and process-of-care. There would be advantage in the establishment, at the data-base level, of global quantitative indices subsuming the diversity of process-of-care.

Methods

A retrospective, cohort study of patients identified in the Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society Adult Patient Database, 1993-2003, at the level of geographic and ICU-level descriptors (n = 35), for both hospital survivors and non-survivors. Process-of-care indices were established by analysis of: (i) the smoothed time-hazard curve of individual patient discharge and determined by pharmaco-kinetic methods as area under the hazard-curve (AUC), reflecting the integrated experience of the discharge process, an

SUBMITTER: Moran JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2873511 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature