Research article
Is the maturity of hospitals' quality improvement systems associated with measures of quality and patient safety?
1 Avedis Donabedian University Institute, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2 CIBER Epidemiology and Public Health (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain
3 School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK
4 IASIST, Barcelona, Spain
5 Department of Health Services Research and Policy, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK
BMC Health Services Research 2011, 11:344 doi:10.1186/1472-6963-11-344
Published: 20 December 2011Additional files
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Definition of hospital adjusted complications. List of complications included in the calculation of the indicator 'hospital adjusted complications'.
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Statistical specifications. Statistical specification and links to the R syntax for the bootstrapping procedure, robust regression procedure and Box-Cox transformation procedure.
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