A comparative study of severity indexes.
Health care cost statistics have always been suspect because of a lack of uniformity among patients. "Our patients are sicker" is the standard retort of those providers whose costs are higher. No doubt this is true in some cases, but it is unlikely in other cases. Consequently, there is a need to standardize cost statistics to reflect just how ill patients are. What is required is severity adjustment or severity indexing.
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St. Luke's Hospital, Cedar Rapids, IA.
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D006751:Hospital Information Systems; D007484:Iowa; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D012984:Software; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D014600:Utilization Review / Q000379:methods*