Marginal indirect standardization using latent clustering on multiple hospitals
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DOI: 10.1002/sim.9272
Abstract: A method was introduced in 2018 of performing indirect standardization for hospital profiling when only the marginal distributions of confounding variables are observed for the index hospital but the full joint covariate distribution is available… read more here.
Keywords: reference hospitals; indirect standardization; marginal indirect; standardization ... See more keywords
1348. Indirect Standardization to Improve Comparison of Children’s Hospitals’ Antimicrobial Use
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DOI: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa439.1530
Abstract: Antimicrobial use (AU) measured by days of therapy per 1000 patient-days (DOT/1000pd), the most established metric, varies widely between children’s hospitals despite robust adoption of antimicrobial stewardship. Differences in diagnoses and procedures (case mix) between… read more here.
Keywords: standardization; case; indirect standardization; children hospitals ... See more keywords