Association Between a Hospital%26apos;s Quality Performance for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Common Medical Conditions

作者:Chen Lena M*; Nallamothu Brahmajee K; Krumholz Harlan M; Spertus John A; Tang Fengming; Chan Paul S
来源:Circulation. Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2013, 6(6): 700-+.
DOI:10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.113.000377

摘要

Background-Public reporting on hospital quality has been widely adopted for common medical conditions. Adding a measure of inpatient survival after cardiac arrest is being considered. It is unknown whether this measure would be redundant, given evidence that hospital organization and culture can have hospital-wide effects on quality. Therefore, we sought to evaluate the correlation between inpatient survival after cardiac arrest and 30-day risk-standardized mortality rates for common medical conditions. %26lt;br%26gt;Methods and Results-Using data between 2007 and 2010 from a national in-hospital cardiac arrest registry, we calculated risk-standardized in-hospital survival rates for cardiac arrest at each hospital. We obtained risk-standardized 30-day mortality rates for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, and pneumonia from Hospital Compare for the same period. The relationship between a hospital%26apos;s performance on cardiac arrest and these other medical conditions was assessed using weighted Pearson correlation coefficients. Among 26 270 patients with in-hospital cardiac arrest at 130 hospitals, survival rates varied across hospitals, with a median risk-standardized hospital survival rate of 22.1% and an interquartile range of 19.7% to 24.2%. There were no significant correlations between a hospital%26apos;s outcomes for its cardiac arrest patients and its patients admitted for acute myocardial infarction (correlation, -0.12; P=0.16), heart failure (correlation, -0.05; P=0.57), or pneumonia (correlation, -0.15; P=0.10). %26lt;br%26gt;Conclusions-Hospitals that performed better on publicly reported outcomes for 3 common medical conditions did not necessarily have better cardiac arrest survival rates. Public reporting on cardiac arrest outcomes could provide new information about hospital quality.

  • 出版日期2013-11