VA Hospital Care: A Comparison of VA and HCFA Methods for Analyzing Patient Outcomes
PEMD-88-29
Published: Jun 30, 1988. Publicly Released: Jul 11, 1988.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO compared the Veterans Administration's (VA) methodology for analyzing its hospitals' mortality rates with the approach the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) used to analyze the mortality rates of hospitals treating Medicare patients.
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Comparative analysisEvaluation methodsHospital care servicesHospitalsMedical recordsPatient care servicesRisk factorsStatistical methodsVeterans hospitalsMedicareMortality