BACKGROUND The Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP) penalizes hospitals for high all-cause unplanned readmission rates. Many have expressed concern that hospitals serving patient populations with more comorbidities, lower incomes, and worse self-reported health status may be disproportionately penalized by readmissions that are not clinically related to the index admission. The impact ...

This paper proposes a model-free approach to hedging and pricing in the presence of market imperfections such as market incompleteness and frictions. The generality of this framework allows us to conduct an in-depth theoretical analysis of hedging strategies with a wide family of risk measures and pricing rules, and study the conditions under which the hedging problem admits a solution and pric...

Measuring health care service performance is a complex task as it has multiple-functions, which contribute in aggregate towards achieving overall goals. There has been an increasing need of a tool for the process-based performance measurement of multispecialty tertiary care hospitals to identify the deficiencies in services and suggest recommendations for their improvement. Analytic Hierarchy P...

When there are interactions among the independent variables, the performances of the most often used multiple regression models and ridge regression model are not well enough. In contrast, the Choquet integral takes into account the interactions among independent variables, the discrete Choquet integral regression models based on some non-negative valued fuzzy measures or monotonic measure can ...

objectives: the value of the client-centered approach for treating patients with various disabilities has been increasingly acknowledged. the aim of this study was to determine the test-retest reliability of the persian version of the canadian occupational performance measure (copm) as an individual outcome measure among iranian elderly population. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 60 old...

this study attempts to find if better performance in power play leads a team to victory in a twenty20 match. based on the methodology devised to do so, the study tries to measure the performance of both the teams during power play overs in terms of batting and bowling. the developed measure is called ‘prod’ which is a product of the difference of batting and bowling performance of the teams dur...

IMPORTANCE The optimal approach for profiling hospital performance with bariatric surgery is unclear. OBJECTIVE To develop a novel composite measure for profiling hospital performance with bariatric surgery. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Using clinical registry data from the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative, we studied all patients undergoing bariatric surgery from January 1, 20...