Hospital quality measures: are process indicators associated with hospital standardized mortality ratios in French acute care hospitals?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Results of associations between process and mortality indicators, both used for the external assessment of hospital care quality or public reporting, differ strongly across studies. However, most of those studies were conducted in North America or United Kingdom. Providing new evidence based on French data could fuel the international debate on quality of care indicators and help inform French policy-makers. The objective of our study was to explore whether optimal care delivery in French hospitals as assessed by their Hospital Process Indicators (HPIs) is associated with low Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratios (HSMRs).

Methods

The French National Authority for Health (HAS) routinely collects for each hospital located in France, a set of mandatory HPIs. Five HP

SUBMITTER: Ngantcha M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5568353 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature