The Evaluation of Hospitalist Care for Patients with Aspiration Pneumonia Using Risk-adjusted Performance Indicators Developed from a Nationwide Inpatient Database.

ABSTRACT: Objective High-quality evidence proving the superiority of hospitalist services is lacking. We developed risk-adjusted performance indicators from a multilevel prediction model using a nationwide inpatient database to evaluate hospitalist medical care for patients with aspiration pneumonia. Methods We extracted cases diagnosed with aspiration pneumonia between 2014 and 2021 from the Diagnosis Procedure Combination (DPC) database. Hospital-level risk-adjusted performance indicators were the observed-to-expected ratio of the following outcomes using a multilevel prediction model containing both patient- and hospital-level variables: death or transfer in poor condition within 30 days (Poor outcome), in-hospital death within 30 days, and discharges within the 25th and 50th percentiles for leng

SUBMITTER: Tsutsumi T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12021503 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature