Table 2. Top and bottom 5 hospitals based on their HSMRs.
| Original | Scenario 1 | Scenario 5 | ||||||||
| Ranking | HSMR | HSMR-1 | New ranking | Rank difference | HSMR-5 | New ranking | Rank difference | |||
| 1 | 68 | (*) | 69 | (*) | 2 | −1 | 69 | (*) | 1 | 0 |
| 2 | 69 | (*) | 68 | (*) | 1 | 1 | 73 | (*) | 2 | 0 |
| 3 | 79 | (*) | 83 | (*) | 5 | −2 | 77 | (*) | 4 | −1 |
| 4 | 79 | (*) | 79 | (*) | 3 | 1 | 76 | (*) | 3 | 1 |
| 5 | 82 | (*) | 82 | (*) | 4 | 1 | 82 | (*) | 5 | 0 |
| 57 | 120 | (**) | 121 | (**) | 58 | −1 | 114 | (**) | 53 | 4 |
| 58 | 120 | (**) | 120 | (**) | 57 | 1 | 117 | (**) | 54 | 4 |
| 59 | 122 | (**) | 125 | (**) | 59 | 0 | 123 | (**) | 56 | 3 |
| 60 | 128 | (**) | 128 | (**) | 60 | 0 | 129 | (**) | 59 | 1 |
| 61 | 132 | (**) | 132 | (**) | 61 | 0 | 155 | (**) | 61 | 0 |
The HSMR of scenario 1 is computed based on the mean of the case-mix distributions of the ‘urgency of admission’ variable of the 61 hospitals. The HSMR of scenario 5 is computed based on the mean of the case-mix distributions of the ‘Charlson Comorbidity index’ variable of the 61 hospitals. (*) Significantly lower than 100, (**) significantly higher than 100.