Hospital quality: a PRIDIT approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Access to high quality medical care is an important determinant of health outcomes, but the quality of care is difficult to determine.

Objective

To apply the PRIDIT methodology to determine an aggregate relative measure of hospital quality using individual process measures.

Design

Retrospective analysis of Medicare hospital data using the PRIDIT methodology.

Subjects

Four-thousand-two-hundred-seventeen acute care and critical access hospitals that report data to CMS' Hospital Compare database.

Measures

Twenty quality measures reported in four categories: heart attack care, heart failure care, pneumonia care, and surgical infection prevention and five structural measures of hospital type.

Results

Relative hospital quality is tightly dist

SUBMITTER: Lieberthal RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2442235 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature