Patient Safety Indicators are an insufficient performance metric to track and grade outcomes of open aortic repair.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

National rankings of hospitals rely on outcomes-based evaluation to assess the performance of surgical programs, particularly those performing high-risk elective surgical procedures such as open aortic repair. Various classification systems exist for tracking outcomes, but increasingly the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision-based Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) are used as a publicly reported comparison measure of hospital quality performance. We sought to critically evaluate the accuracy of the existing vehicles to assess open aortic repair outcomes in an established program.

Methods

This is a case-control study of patients who underwent open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair at the Johns Hopkins Med

SUBMITTER: Sorber R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7721207 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature