Hospital output has frequently been measured by bed day, or by number of cases admitted to or  discharged from hospitals. Overtime, however, the typical admitted patient receives a greater intensity of services primarily attributable to technology. If you want to compare year-over year outputs you must account for this changes. What is the term we use to account for these adjustments so that we can compare apples to apples

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  1. Hospital output has frequently been measured by bed day, or by number of cases admitted to or  discharged from hospitals. Overtime, however, the typical admitted patient receives a greater intensity of services primarily attributable to technology. If you want to compare year-over year outputs you must account for this changes. What is the term we use to account for these adjustments so that we can compare apples to apples?
 

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Measure of effectiveness

 

B.

Output adjustments

 

C.

Intensity adjustments

 

D.

Cross-sectional comparisons

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