Hospital-specific Template Matching for Benchmarking Performance in a Diverse Multihospital System.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hospital-specific template matching is a newer method of hospital performance measurement that may be fairer than regression-based benchmarking. However, it has been tested in only limited research settings.

Objective

The objective of this study was to test the feasibility of hospital-specific template matching assessments in the Veterans Affairs (VA) health care system and determine power to detect greater-than-expected 30-day mortality.

Research design

Observational cohort study with hospital-specific template matching assessment. For each VA hospital, the 30-day mortality of a representative subset of hospitalizations was compared with the pooled mortality from matched hospitalizations at a set of comparison VA hospitals treating sufficiently similar pat

SUBMITTER: Vincent BM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8802232 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature