Evaluating Methods for Intersectoral Comparison of Quality of Care. A Routine Data Analysis of Elective Percutaneous Coronary Interventions.

Conclusions: The analysis revealed that the adjusted risk for complications following an elective PCI is similar between the inpatient and the outpatient setting. For mortality the risk differed but this might be explained by residual or unmeasured confounding. The different methods applied in this study revealed mostly similar results. Since our study only covered one aspect of quality of care in the field of PCI and did not consider drug treatment in hospital or in the outpatient setting, further studies are needed which include these aspects. PMID: 25077437 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
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