2010
The performance of US hospitals as reflected in risk‐standardized 30‐day mortality and readmission rates for medicare beneficiaries with pneumonia
Lindenauer PK, Bernheim SM, Grady JN, Lin Z, Wang Y, Wang Y, Merrill AR, Han LF, Rapp MT, Drye EE, Normand S, Krumholz HM. The performance of US hospitals as reflected in risk‐standardized 30‐day mortality and readmission rates for medicare beneficiaries with pneumonia. Journal Of Hospital Medicine 2010, 5: e12-e18. PMID: 20665626, DOI: 10.1002/jhm.822.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsRisk-standardized mortality ratesReadmission ratesHospital referral regionsReferral regionsMedicare beneficiariesMortality rateRisk-standardized readmission ratesNonfederal acute care hospitalsNational quality improvement effortsPattern of hospitalAcute care hospitalsCross-sectional studyService Medicare beneficiariesQuality improvement effortsMedian hospitalHospital dischargeElderly patientsHospital admissionCare hospitalReadmission analysisOutpatient MedicareLeading causePrincipal diagnosisPneumoniaPatients
2009
Door-to-Balloon Times in Hospitals Within the Get-With-The-Guidelines Registry After Initiation of the Door-to-Balloon (D2B) Alliance
Nallamothu BK, Krumholz HM, Peterson ED, Pan W, Bradley E, Stern AF, Masoudi FA, Janicke DM, Hernandez AF, Cannon CP, Fonarow GC, Investigators D. Door-to-Balloon Times in Hospitals Within the Get-With-The-Guidelines Registry After Initiation of the Door-to-Balloon (D2B) Alliance. The American Journal Of Cardiology 2009, 103: 1051-1055. PMID: 19361588, DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2008.12.030.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPercutaneous coronary interventionPrimary percutaneous coronary interventionD2B AlliancePercentage of patientsGWTG-CADBalloon timeST-elevation myocardial infarctionNational quality improvement effortsQuality improvement effortsBalloon (D2B) AllianceDTB timeNontransferred patientsCoronary interventionPatient characteristicsMyocardial infarctionMultivariable modelAmerican CollegePatientsDisease programsHospitalStudy periodSignificant differencesHospital performanceMinutesImprovement efforts