Hospital profiling data.

Information on patient-reported problem rates for 27 teaching hospitals and private academic health centers in the United States.

Hospitals

Format

A data frame with 27 rows (one for each hospital) and 4 variables:

NSrg

Non-surgery related problem rate (percent).

Srg

Surgery related problem rate (percent).

Severity

Average health index for surveyed patients.

Size

Number of patients surveyed.

References

Everson, P.J. and Morris, C.N. "Inference for multivariate normal hierarchical models." Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B 62:2 (2000): 399-412.