On measuring the quality of hospitals A simple method of constructing a composite quality index

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Funding Acknowledgements

This research was funded by an NHMRC Partnership Grant (Grant ID: 567217) and in collaboration with the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services (formerly the Victorian Department of Health). The authors are grateful to Anna Burgess, Jon Evans, Peter McNair, Peter Carver and Ilias Mastoris for helpful comments and discussions. The authors would like to thank Ying Chen for helpful assistance with data access. This research has received ethics approval from the Humanities and Applied Sciences Human Ethics Sub-Committee of the University of Melbourne. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Victorian Department of Health and Human Services.