Open AccessImprovements in the Distribution of Hospital Performance for the Care of Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, and Pneumonia, 2006–2011
Author(s) -
Sudhakar V. Nuti,
Yongfei Wang,
Frederick A. Masoudi,
Dale W. Bratzler,
Susannah M. Bernheim,
Karthik Murugiah,
Harlan M. Krumholz
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
medical care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.632
H-Index - 178
eISSN - 1537-1948
pISSN - 0025-7079
DOI - 10.1097/mlr.0000000000000358
Subject(s) - percentile , medicine , myocardial infarction , medicaid , heart failure , pneumonia , emergency medicine , acute care , statistics , health care , mathematics , economics , economic growth
Medicare hospital core process measures have improved over time, but little is known about how the distribution of performance across hospitals has changed, particularly among the lowest performing hospitals.