Quality of Care in Chinese Hospitals: Processes and Outcomes After ST-segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

China has gaps in the quality of care provided to patients with ST-elevation myocardial infarction, but little is known about how quality varies between hospitals.

Methods and results

Using nationally representative data from the China PEACE-Retrospective AMI Study, we characterized the quality of care for ST-elevation myocardial infarction at the hospital level and examined variation between hospitals. Two summary measures were used to describe the overall quality of care at each hospital and to characterize variations in quality between hospitals in 2001, 2006, and 2011. The composite rate measured the proportion of opportunities a hospital had to deliver 6 guideline-recommended treatments for ST-elevation myocardial infarction that were successfully met, while

SUBMITTER: Downing NS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5669155 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature