Open AccessImpact of Socioeconomic Status Measures on Hospital Profiling in New York City
Author(s) -
Alexander B. Blum,
Natalia Egorova,
Eugene A. Sosunov,
Annetine C. Gelijns,
Erin DuPree,
Alan J. Moskowitz,
Alex D. Federman,
Deborah D. Ascheim,
Salomeh Keyhani
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
circulation cardiovascular quality and outcomes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.692
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1941-7713
pISSN - 1941-7705
DOI - 10.1161/circoutcomes.113.000520
Subject(s) - medicine , medicaid , socioeconomic status , odds ratio , statistic , odds , demography , emergency medicine , logistic regression , health care , environmental health , population , statistics , mathematics , economic growth , sociology , economics
Current 30-day readmission models used by the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the purpose of hospital-level comparisons lack measures of socioeconomic status (SES). We examined whether the inclusion of an SES measure in 30-day congestive heart failure readmission models changed hospital risk-standardized readmission rates in New York City (NYC) hospitals.
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