Publications by authors named "Marian D Lee"
Rethinking Measures and Mortality Attribution in Health Care: The ENT Example.
Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg
December 2024
Article Synopsis
- National performance metrics are crucial for improving healthcare delivery and guiding patient decisions, making valid measures necessary.
- This study analyzed US News and World Report metrics from 2012 to 2019 alongside electronic health record data to evaluate care for patients attributed to the ENT mortality group.
- The findings revealed that only 23 out of 47 initially attributed ENT deaths were verified, lowering the mortality rate and suggesting a need for better methods in mortality attribution and a shift from specialty rankings to a more comprehensive rating approach.
This study sought to determine if the site of graduate medical training or other factors impact the length of institutional employment. Physician hires for the home institution were catalogued from January 1, 1996, through December 31, 2006. In analyzing the 253 physician hires, we found no statistically significant advantage in employee retention associated with hiring "one's own" or with U.
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