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International Journal for Quality in Health Care 16:181-182 (2004)
International Journal for Quality in Health Care vol. 16 no. 2 © International Society for Quality in Health Care and Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved

Book review

Risk Adjustment for Measuring Health Care Outcomes, 3rd edition

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Lisa I. Iezzoni (editor)

Hardback, 508 pp, August 2003, ISBN 1-56793-207-X, $76.50, AcademyHealth/HAP (http://www.ache.org/hap.cfm)

Lisa Iezzoni and colleagues produced the first edition of Risk Adjustment for Measuring Health Care Outcomes nearly 10 years ago. At that time, payers and researchers were concerned with risk adjustment primarily as a tool for hospital payment and for assessing hospital performance. Although the Health Care Financing Administration had ceased issuing Medicare risk-adjusted mortality rate reports, several other hospital performance reporting projects were then underway, such as New York State’s coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery mortality project, Pennsylvania’s hospital outcomes reporting project, and the Cleveland Health Quality . . . [Full Text of this Article]

J. William Thomas

Muskie School of Public Service, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME, USA, E-mail: jwthomas@usm.maine.edu


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