Fig. 1
From: Inpatient hospital performance is associated with post-discharge sepsis mortality
Proposed causal diagram for the hypothesized relationship between hospital-specific observed:expected (O:E) mortality ratio and post-discharge mortality. Shaded boxes indicate parameters that are measurable (non-shaded boxes are unmeasured). In our primary analysis, we are using inpatient O:E mortality as a surrogate approximation of hospital quality. The purpose of this analysis is to understand to what degree post-discharge mortality may be modifiable based on hospital-level care