Ethical considerations for classifying patients as ‘palliative’ when calculating Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios
The Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio (HSMR) is a commonly used measure of hospital mortality that is standardised for age, comorbidities and other factors. By tradition, this statistic has always excluded patients classified as ‘palliative’. The HSMR has never been validated as a reliable measu...
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Journal of medical ethics
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