Case-mix adjustment using objective measures of severity: the case for laboratory data.

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Published in Health Serv Res on February 01, 1994

Authors

B Mozes1, M J Easterling, L B Sheiner, K L Melmon, R Kline, E S Goldman, A N Brown

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine 94143-0626.

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