2023
Relationship Between In-Hospital Adverse Events and Hospital Performance on 30-Day All-cause Mortality and Readmission for Patients With Heart Failure
Wang Y, Eldridge N, Metersky M, Rodrick D, Eckenrode S, Mathew J, Galusha D, Peterson A, Hunt D, Normand S, Krumholz H. Relationship Between In-Hospital Adverse Events and Hospital Performance on 30-Day All-cause Mortality and Readmission for Patients With Heart Failure. Circulation Cardiovascular Quality And Outcomes 2023, 16: e009573. PMID: 37463255, PMCID: PMC10351904, DOI: 10.1161/circoutcomes.122.009573.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMore adverse eventsAdverse eventsHeart failureCause mortalityReadmission ratesHigh riskMedicare Patient Safety Monitoring SystemHospital-acquired adverse eventsIn-Hospital Adverse EventsHospital adverse eventsRate of patientsPatient Safety DatabasePerformance categoriesAdverse event dataCross-sectional studyUnited States CentersHospital performanceHospital characteristicsReadmission dataPatient riskMAIN OUTCOMEPatientsWorst hospitalsHospitalHigh mortality
2016
Risk-standardized Acute Admission Rates Among Patients With Diabetes and Heart Failure as a Measure of Quality of Accountable Care Organizations
Spatz ES, Lipska KJ, Dai Y, Bao H, Lin Z, Parzynski CS, Altaf FK, Joyce EK, Montague JA, Ross JS, Bernheim SM, Krumholz HM, Drye EE. Risk-standardized Acute Admission Rates Among Patients With Diabetes and Heart Failure as a Measure of Quality of Accountable Care Organizations. Medical Care 2016, 54: 528-537. PMID: 26918404, PMCID: PMC5356461, DOI: 10.1097/mlr.0000000000000518.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsHeart failure measuresAccountable care organizationsAcute admission ratesHeart failureAdmission ratesNational ratesUnplanned hospital admissionsHeart failure cohortRisk-adjustment variablesPopulation-based measuresCare organizationsOutcome measure developmentIntraclass correlation coefficientHospital admissionDiabetes measuresFailure cohortChronic conditionsMedicare feeDiabetesService beneficiariesPatientsMeet criteriaMeasures of qualitySocioeconomic statusPerformance categories