Interhospital variability in health care-associated infections and payments after durable ventricular assist device implant among Medicare beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The objective of this study was to investigate variations across hospitals in infection rates and associated costs, the latter reflected in 90-day Medicare payments. Despite high rates and expenditures of health care--associated infections associated with durable ventricular assist device implantation, few studies have examined interhospital variation and associated costs.

Methods

Clinical data on 8688 patients who received primary durable ventricular assist devices from July 2008 to July 2017 from the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Interagency Registry for Mechanically Assisted Circulatory Support (Intermacs) hospitals (n = 120) were merged with postimplantation 90-day Medicare claims. Terciles of hospital-specific, risk-adjusted infection rates per 100 patient-mont

SUBMITTER: Likosky DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10150658 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature