Developing a template matching algorithm for benchmarking hospital performance in a diverse, integrated healthcare system.

ABSTRACT: Template matching is a proposed approach for hospital benchmarking, which measures performance based on matching a subset of comparable patient hospitalizations from each hospital. We assessed the ability to create the required matched samples and thus the feasibility of template matching to benchmark hospital performance in a diverse healthcare system.Nationwide Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals, 2017.Observational cohort study.We used administrative and clinical data from 668,592 hospitalizations at 134 VA hospitals in 2017. A standardized template of 300 hospitalizations was selected, and then 300 hospitalizations were matched to the template from each hospital.There was substantial case-mix variation across VA hospitals, which persisted after excluding small hospitals, hospitals with pri

SUBMITTER: Molling D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7302661 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature