Risk Adjustment for Measuring Healthcare Outcomes - Softcover

An introduction to risk adjustment methodologies, for those who are interested in measuring and assessing outcomes of medical care. It provides a conceptual framework for risk adjustment, data requirements with references to data sources, methods for risk adjustment, measures of reliability and validity, statistical methods for evaluating risk-adjustment strategies, and examples of how risk-adjusted outcomes are used in states and regions around the country. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.