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504 * Wed, 8/6/2014, 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM CC-101
Providor Profiling and Predicting Hospital Outcomes — Contributed Papers
Health Policy Statistics Section , Statistics Without Borders
Chair(s): Wei Pan, Duke University   
10:35 AM Penalized Count Data Regression with Application to Hospital Stay After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Zhu Wang, Connecticut Children's Medical Center ; Shuangge Ma, Yale ; Michael Zappitelli, McGill University Health Centre ; Chirag Parikh, Yale ; Ching-Yun Wang, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center ; Prasad Devarajan, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
10:50 AM Particle Swarm Optimization for Diagnosis Code Variable Selection Gregory Watson
11:05 AM Inference for Identifying Outlying Health Care Providers Michael Racz, Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
11:20 AM Operating Characteristics of a Performance Index for Benchmarking Hospital Performance: Illustrated on Riksstroke, the Swedish Stroke Register Anita Lindmark, Umeå University ; Bart van Rompaye, USBE/Umeå University ; Els Goetghebeur, Ghent University ; Eva-Lotta Glader, Umeå University ; Marie Eriksson, Umeå University
11:35 AM Profiling a Large Number of Centers for a Rare Event Purna Mukhopadhyay, Arbor Research Collaborative for Health ; Douglas E. Schaubel, University of Michigan ; Jeffrey Pearson, Arbor Research Collaborative for Health ; Douglas Lehmann , University of Michigan
11:50 AM A Comparison of Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Analyses for Adverse Events Data Douglas Morrison, Stanford University ; Manisha Desai, Stanford University ; Catherine Curtin, Stanford University ; Tina Hernandez-Boussard, Stanford University
12:05 PM Can Planned Visit Scores Predict Practice Improvements in Patient Experience Outcomes? A Meta-Regression Study Gerald Arnold, American Board of Internal Medicine ; Rebecca Baranowski, American Board of Internal Medicine ; Lauren Duhigg, American Board of Internal Medicine



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