This report discusses reanalysis of VA hospital quality monitor data sets as described in Aguilar and West (1988) Analysis of Hospital Quality Monitors using Hierarchical Time Series Models and, in a much extended version, in West and Aguilar (1997) Studies of Quality Monitor Time Series: The V.A. Hospital System. In Fall 1998 the data set was updated from the original eight years of to ten years, 1988-1997 inclusive. The extended data has been studied using the models of the above report, and some basic summaries of the analysis are detailed here.

This work was performed in consultation and collaboration with the VA Management Science Group, Bedford MA.

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