Case Sampling vs Universal Review for Evaluating Hospital Postoperative Mortality in US Surgical Quality Improvement Programs.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Representative surgical case sampling, rather than universal review, is used by US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and private-sector national surgical quality improvement (QI) programs to assess program performance and to inform local QI and performance improvement efforts. However, it is unclear whether case sampling is robust for identifying hospitals with safety or quality concerns.

Objective

To evaluate whether the sampling strategy used by several national surgical QI programs provides hospitals with data that are representative of their overall quality and safety, as measured by 30-day mortality.

Design, setting, and participants

This comparative effectiveness study was a national, hospital-level analysis of data from adult patients (aged ≥18 yea

SUBMITTER: Chen VW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10535011 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature