Sepsis quality in safety-net hospitals: An analysis of Medicare's SEP-1 performance measure.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Newly enacted policies at the state and federal level in the United States require acute care hospitals to engage in sepsis quality improvement. However, responding to these policies requires considerable resources and may disproportionately burden safety-net hospitals. To better understand this issue, we analyzed the relationship between hospital safety-net status and performance on Medicare's SEP-1 quality measure.

Materials and methods

We linked multiple publicly-available datasets with information on SEP-1 performance, structural hospital characteristics, hospital financial case mix, and health system affiliation. We analyzed the relationship between hospital safety-net status and SEP-1 performance, as well as whether hospital characteristics moderated that relat

SUBMITTER: Barbash IJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6901718 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature