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Estimating the out-of-hospital mortality rate using patient discharge data

Farsi, Mehdi ; Ridder, Geert

This paper is a case study of the use of public use administrative data for the estimation of empirical relations when key dependent variables are not available in the data. It is shown that the out-of-hospital mortality rates can be identified using the patient discharge data without post-discharge death records. Using data on the lengths of hospitalizations and out-of-hospital spells, the...