Researchers used data from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s Innovative Inpatient Quality Indicators and 11 states’ State Inpatient Database records from 2006 through 2008 to compare 15 within-hospital quality of care measures with risk-adjusted mortality rates for patients of varying insurance statuses.
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