Comparison of a Potential Hospital Quality Metric With Existing Metrics for Surgical Quality-Associated Readmission.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The existing readmission quality metric does not meaningfully distinguish readmissions associated with surgical quality from those that are not associated with surgical quality and thus may not reflect the quality of surgical care.

Objective

To compare a quality metric that classifies readmissions associated with surgical quality with the existing metric of any unplanned readmission in a surgical population.

Design, setting, and participants

Cohort study using US nationwide administrative data collected on 4 high-volume surgical procedures performed at 103 Veterans Affairs hospitals from October 1, 2007, through September 30, 2014. Data analysis was conducted from October 1, 2017, to January 24, 2019.

Main outcomes and measures

Hospital-level rates o

SUBMITTER: Graham LA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6481441 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature