Exploring the Behavior of Hospital Composite Performance Measures | Zendy

Sean M. O’Brien | Zendy; Elizabeth R. DeLong | Zendy; Rachel S. Dokholyan | Zendy; Fred H. Edwards | Zendy; Eric D. Peterson | Zendy

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Exploring the Behavior of Hospital Composite Performance Measures

Author(s) -

Sean M. O’Brien,

Elizabeth R. DeLong,

Rachel S. Dokholyan,

Fred H. Edwards,

Eric D. Peterson

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

circulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795

H-Index - 607

eISSN - 1524-4539

pISSN - 0009-7322

DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.107.703553

Subject(s) - medicine , ranking (information retrieval) , medicaid , weighting , metric (unit) , variance (accounting) , process (computing) , reimbursement , actuarial science , statistics , operations management , health care , computer science , accounting , information retrieval , mathematics , business , radiology , economics , economic growth , operating system

Composite scores that combine several performance measures into a single ranking are becoming the accepted metric for assessing hospital performance. In particular, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) project bases financial rewards and penalties on these scores. Although the HQID composite calculation is straightforward and easily understood, its method of combining process and outcome measures has not been validated.

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