Referral selection bias in the Medicare hospital mortality prediction model: Are centers of referral for Medicare beneficiaries necessarily centers of excellence?

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Selection Bias 100%
• Medicare 89%
• Hospital Mortality 83%
• Referral and Consultation 64%
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.) 56%
• Mortality 17%
• Information Storage and Retrieval 15%
• Quality of Health Care 15%
• Logistic Models 11%
• Risk Adjustment 11%
• Hospitalization 6%

Social Sciences

• mortality 73%
• trend 42%
• Health Care Financing 36%
• Quality of care 11%
• illness 8%
• risk adjustment 8%
• hospital administration 8%
• hospitalization 6%
• logistics 4%
• regression 3%
• Group 1%