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Comparing methods to calculate hospital-specific rates of early death or urgent readmission

Carl van Walraven, Jenna Wong, Steven Hawken and Alan J. Forster
CMAJ October 09, 2012 cmaj.120801; DOI: https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.120801
Carl van Walraven
From the Faculty of Medicine (van Walraven, Forster), University of Ottawa; the Clinical Epidemiology Program (van Walraven, Wong, Hawken, Forster), Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ont.; and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (van Walraven, Wong, Hawken, Forster), Toronto, Ont.
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Jenna Wong
From the Faculty of Medicine (van Walraven, Forster), University of Ottawa; the Clinical Epidemiology Program (van Walraven, Wong, Hawken, Forster), Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ont.; and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (van Walraven, Wong, Hawken, Forster), Toronto, Ont.
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Steven Hawken
From the Faculty of Medicine (van Walraven, Forster), University of Ottawa; the Clinical Epidemiology Program (van Walraven, Wong, Hawken, Forster), Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ont.; and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (van Walraven, Wong, Hawken, Forster), Toronto, Ont.
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Alan J. Forster
From the Faculty of Medicine (van Walraven, Forster), University of Ottawa; the Clinical Epidemiology Program (van Walraven, Wong, Hawken, Forster), Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ont.; and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (van Walraven, Wong, Hawken, Forster), Toronto, Ont.
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Online Appendix

  • Appendix 1: LACE+ point system derived from original cohort containing all discharges versus one discharge per patient, and parameter estimates from logistic regression model with LACE+ score as independent predictor of 30-day death or urgent readmission

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