Use of risk-adjusted CUSUM charts to monitor 30-day mortality in Danish hospitals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Monitoring hospital outcomes and clinical processes as a measure of clinical performance is an integral part of modern health care. The risk-adjusted cumulative sum (CUSUM) chart is a frequently used sequential analysis technique that can be implemented to monitor a wide range of different types of outcomes.

Objective

The aim of this study was to describe how risk-adjusted CUSUM charts based on population-based nationwide medical registers were used to monitor 30-day mortality in Danish hospitals and to give an example on how alarms of increased hospital mortality from the charts can guide further in-depth analyses.

Materials and methods

We used routinely collected administrative data from the Danish National Patient Registry and the Danish Civil Registrati

SUBMITTER: Rasmussen TB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5912378 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature