August 3, 2012Journal of Hospital MedicineOpen Access

Correlations among risk‐standardized mortality rates and among risk‐standardized readmission rates within hospitals

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Population

US hospitals treating Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries admitted with acute myocardial infarction…

Design

Cross-sectional

Follow-up

30-day

Authors

LHLeora I. HorwitzHeart Failure & Transplant YWYongfei WangHeart Failure & Transplant MDMayur M. DesaiYale University

Discussion

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Implication

Supports shared hospital quality factors; leaves open whether targeting one metric improves others.

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Population

US hospitals (4559 in mortality cohort, 4468 in readmission cohort) treating Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries admitted with acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure (HF), and pneumonia from July 2007 to June 2009

Outcome

Correlation between pairs of 30-day risk-standardized mortality rates and pairs of 30-day risk-standardized readmission rates for AMI, HF, and pneumonia

Risk-standardized readmission and mortality rates for AMI, HF, and pneumonia are moderately correlated within hospitals, suggesting the presence of common hospital-wide quality factors.

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Horwitz et al. (2012) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a72c2cc5d37378ac1df68a8 https://doi.org/10.1002/jhm.1965

Topics

Heart failure HFrEF treatment

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Correlations among risk‐standardized mortality rates and among risk‐standardized readmission rates within hospitals

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Structured PICO

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Correlations among risk‐standardized mortality rates and among risk‐standardized readmission rates within hospitals

Discussion

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Implication

Structured PICO

Cite This Study

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