Gabriel J. Escobar, MD, Research Scientist, Kaiser Permanente

      This session will discuss automated severity of illness scoring, use of severity-adjusted data to measure hospital performance, and a strategy for transferring research expertise to hospital operations departments.
      After this presentation you will be able to:

• Describe the concept of objective severity of illness measurement.
• Discuss the difference between univariate, bivariate,andmultivariate analytic techniques that can be used for quality measurement.
• Identify the key metrics for assessment of multivariate models that can be used to measure hospital performance.