Impact on hospital ranking of basing readmission measures on a composite endpoint of death or readmission versus readmissions alone

Table 2 Model Performance

	C statistic	Brier Score	LR test for RE effect
Principle Discharge Diagnosis
AMI, CHF, or PNEU
Composite Outcome	0.67	0.093	<0.0001
Readmission	0.62	0.062	<0.0001
Acute Myocardial Infarction
Composite Outcome	0.71	0.098	<0.0001
Readmission	0.64	0.059	<0.0001
Congestive Heart Failure
Composite Outcome	0.64	0.097	<0.0001
Readmission	0.60	0.071	<0.0001
Pneumoniae
Composite Outcome	0.69	0.086	<0.0001
Readmission	0.63	0.055	<0.0001

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