Short title: Identifying hospital performance outliers Xiaoting Wu, Ph.D.1; Min Zhang, Ph.D.2; Richard L. Prager, M.D.1,3; Donald S. Likosky, Ph.D.1,3; for the Michigan Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons Quality Collaborative (1) Department of Cardiac Surgery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, (2) Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan; (3) Michigan Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons Quality Collaborative
Presented at the QCOR 2017 Scientific Sessions, Quality of Care and Outcomes Research, Arlington, VA, April 2 – 3, 2017