Pre-COVID-19 hospital quality and hospital response to COVID-19: examining associations between risk-adjusted mortality for patients hospitalised with COVID-19 and pre-COVID-19 hospital quality.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The extent to which care quality influenced outcomes for patients hospitalised with COVID-19 is unknown. Our objective was to determine if prepandemic hospital quality is associated with mortality among Medicare patients hospitalised with COVID-19.

Design

This is a retrospective observational study. We calculated hospital-level risk-standardised in-hospital and 30-day mortality rates (risk-standardised mortality rates, RSMRs) for patients hospitalised with COVID-19, and correlation coefficients between RSMRs and pre-COVID-19 hospital quality, overall and stratified by hospital characteristics.

Setting

Short-term acute care hospitals and critical access hospitals in the USA.

Participants

Hospitalised Medicare beneficiaries (Fee-For-Service and Medicar

SUBMITTER: Peter D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10982775 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature