Quality of care after a horizontal merger between two large academic hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital mergers remain common, but their influence on healthcare quality varies. Data on effects of European hospital mergers are ill defined, and academic hospitals in particular. This case study assesses early quality of care changes in two formerly competing Dutch academic hospitals that merged on June 6, 2018.

Methods

Statistical process control and interrupted time series analysis were performed. All adult, non-psychiatric patients, admitted between 01-03-2016 and 01-10-2022 were eligible for analysis. Primary outcome measure was all cause in-hospital mortality (or hospice), secondary outcomes were unplanned 30-day readmissions to same hospital, length of stay, and patients' hospital rating. Data were obtained from electronic health records, and patient expe

SUBMITTER: Wissink IJA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11490856 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature