Postpandemic Recovery of Case Mix Index and Risk-Adjusted Mortality in US Hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted long-standing trends in hospital quality and patient safety, prompting questions about whether risk-adjusted outcomes have resumed their prepandemic trajectories.

Objective

To determine whether trends in risk-adjusted mortality and case mix index (CMI) among hospitalized patients in hospitals have returned to prepandemic trajectories.

Design, setting, and participants

This retrospective cohort study was a multicenter analysis that used the Vizient Clinical Data Base, which contains encounter-level administrative and financial data from more than 1300 hospitals in the US. The study included continuously reporting hospitals and examined inpatient discharges between October 2019 and March 2024. Data were analyzed between January

SUBMITTER: DeRienzo C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12612936 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature