Impact of an Expanded Hospital Recognition Program for Stroke Quality of Care [Stroke]

We examined hospital‐level performance on 6 quality of care (process) measures and 1 defect‐free composite quality measure for stroke following expansion of the existing performance measure recognition program. Compliance with all measures improved following launch of the expanded program, and this rate increased significantly for all 9 measures. When evaluated as the relative rate of increase in use over time, process improvement slowed significantly (P

Source: JAHA:Journal of the American Heart Association - January 21, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Heidenreich, P. A., Zhao, X., Hernandez, A. F., Schwamm, L. H., Smith, E., Reeves, M., Peterson, E. D., Fonarow, G. C. Tags: Quality and Outcomes Original Research Source Type: research