Meeting the ambition of measuring the quality of hospitals' stroke care using routinely collected administrative data: a feasibility study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine the potential for using routinely collected administrative data to compare the quality and safety of stroke care at a hospital level, including evaluating any bias due to variations in coding practice.

Design

A retrospective cohort study of English hospitals' performance against six process and outcome indicators covering the acute care pathway. We used logistic regression to adjust the outcome measures for case mix.

Setting

Hospitals in England.

Participants

Stroke patients (ICD-10 I60-I64) admitted to English National Health Service public acute hospitals between April 2009 and March 2010, accounting for 91 936 admissions.

Main outcome measure

The quality and safety were measured using six indicators spanning the hospital care path

SUBMITTER: Palmer WL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3723302 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature