Survival analysis and competing risk models of hospital length of stay and discharge destination: the effect of distributional assumptions
The literature on length of stay and hospital discharge is often used to inform policy regarding hospital payment and quality. This literature has evolved from the use of ordinary least squares estimation of linear and log-linear models to the use of survival and competing risk models that control f...
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2007
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1822/7627 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/7627 |