Association between public reporting of outcomes with procedural management and mortality for patients with acute myocardial infarction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Public reporting of procedural outcomes may create disincentives to provide percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) for critically ill patients.

Objectives

This study evaluated the association between public reporting with procedural management and outcomes among patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI).

Methods

Using the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, we identified all patients with a primary diagnosis of AMI in states with public reporting (Massachusetts and New York) and regionally comparable states without public reporting (Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont) between 2005 and 2011. Procedural management and in-hospital outcomes were stratified by public reporting.

Results

Among 84,121 patients hospitalize

SUBMITTER: Waldo SW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4368858 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature