Assessing Variability in Hospital-Level Mortality Among U.S. Medicare Beneficiaries With Hospitalizations for Severe Sepsis and Septic Shock.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To assess the variability in short-term sepsis mortality by hospital among Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services beneficiaries in the United States during 2013-2014.

Design

A retrospective cohort design.

Setting

Hospitalizations from 3,068 acute care hospitals that participated in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services inpatient prospective payment system in 2013 and 2014.

Patients

Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries greater than or equal to 65 years old who had an inpatient hospitalization coded with present at admission severe sepsis or septic shock.

Interventions

None.

Measurements and main results

Individual level mortality was assessed as death at or within 7 days of hospital discharge and aggregated to calculate ho

SUBMITTER: Hatfield KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6774245 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature