Assessing Hospital Surgical Quality.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Develop a new hospital surgery report card for use in performance improvement.

Background

When evaluating quality, a surgical program is aided by benchmark comparisons with outcomes achieved at other hospitals. To be credible, benchmarking should be based on the same surgical procedures and patient risk, despite there being many types of patients and procedures.

Methods

Using Medicare patients undergoing general, orthopedic, or vascular surgery, each patient in a hospital is closely matched to 10 control patients from typical hospitals and to 10 control patients from well-resourced hospitals throughout the United States. Patients were matched on 200 characteristics, including procedure, comorbidities, socio-demographics, and the presence of multimorbidity. H

SUBMITTER: Silber JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12727418 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature