In the spotlight with a visual summary and interview: the research of Daniëlle Koornneef, researcher on Quality of Care (IT systems).
Does socioeconomic status (SES) affect the outcomes of intensive care admissions? Could benchmarking between hospitals be improved by including SES? For these important research questions incorporating SES into the ICU registry data from NICE was necessary. My colleagues and I from the NICE registry collaborated with Statistics Netherlands (CBS) microdata to link SES information with the NICE database. In doing so, we encountered both challenges and opportunities.
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