The impact of disease severity adjustment on hospital standardised mortality ratios: Results from a service-wide analysis of ischaemic stroke admissions using linked pre-hospital, admissions and mortality data

• Melina Gattellari,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Heart and Brain Collaboration, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Chris Goumas,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Heart and Brain Collaboration, Ingham Institute for Applied Medical Research, Liverpool, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Bin Jalaludin,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Population Health Intelligence, Healthy People and Places Unit; South Western Sydney Local Health District, Liverpool, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, School of Public Health, The University of New South Wales, Kensington, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• John Worthington

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: John.Worthington@health.nsw.gov.au

  Affiliations Institute of Clinical Neurosciences, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, South Western Sydney Clinical School, The University of New South Wales, Liverpool, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1102-4927

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