The association between outcome-based quality indicators for intensive care units.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To assess and improve the effectiveness of ICU care, in-hospital mortality rates are often used as principal quality indicator for benchmarking purposes. Two other often used, easily quantifiable, quality indicators to assess the efficiency of ICU care are based on readmission to the ICU and ICU length of stay. Our aim was to examine whether there is an association between case-mix adjusted outcome-based quality indicators in the general ICU population as well as within specific subgroups.

Materials and methods

We included patients admitted in 2015 of all Dutch ICUs. We derived the standardized in-hospital mortality ratio (SMR); the standardized readmission ratio (SRR); and the standardized length of stay ratio (SLOSR). We expressed association through Pearson's corr

SUBMITTER: Verburg IWM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5999279 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature