Comparative quality measures of emergency care: an outcome cockpit proposal to survey clinical processes in real life.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Benchmarking of real-life quality of care may improve evaluation and comparability of emergency department (ED) care. We investigated process management variables for important medical diagnoses in a large, well-defined cohort of ED patients and studied predictors for low quality of care.

Methods

We prospectively included consecutive medical patients with main diagnoses of community-acquired pneumonia, urinary tract infection (UTI), myocardial infarction (MI), acute heart failure, deep vein thrombosis, and COPD exacerbation and followed them for 30 days. We studied predictors for alteration in ED care (treatment times, satisfaction with care, readmission rates, and mortality) by using multivariate regression analyses.

Results

Overall, 2986 patients (median

SUBMITTER: Burgemeister S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5661482 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature