VA hospital quality monitor
The outcomes in the monitor areas represent annual numbers of individuals
who failed to return for an outpatient visit within 30 days of discharge,
out of the total number of annual discharges. Monitor 21 here is in the Substance
Abuse Psychiatric care. Low return rates are indicative of low ``quality''
in these specific care areas. This subsample of a much larger data sets provides
information on years 1992 and 1993 for the 159 hospitals in the VA system.
Here are the same two years of outcome data, but now each hospital/year
combination has an additional number associated with it: the VA's case-mix
adjustment factor that, for each hospital in each year, is supposed
to be a predictor of the fraction of returns. This plays the role of a covariate
in models for the outcomes. The two years are given here separately,
1992 and 1993