Hospital quality reporting and improvement in quality of care for patients with acute myocardial infarction.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although public reporting of hospital performance is becoming common, it remains uncertain whether public reporting leads to improvement in clinical outcomes. This study was conducted to evaluate whether enrollment in a quality reporting project is associated with improvement in quality of care for patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Methods

We conducted a quasi-experimental study using hospital census survey and national inpatient database in Japan. Hospitals enrolled in a ministry-led quality reporting project were matched with non-reporting control hospitals by one-to-one propensity score matching using hospital characteristics. Using the inpatient data of acute myocardial infarction patients hospitalized in the matched hospitals during 2011-2013, differ

SUBMITTER: Yamana H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6033287 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature