Evaluating hospital performance based on excess cause‐specific incidence
Formal evaluation of hospital performance in specific types of care is becoming an indispensable tool for quality assurance in the health care system. When the prime concern lies in reducing the risk of a cause‐specific event, we propose to evaluate performance in terms of an average excess cumulative incidence, referring to the center's observed patient mix. Its intuitive interpretation helps give meaning to the evaluation results and facilitates the determination of important benchmarks for hospital performance. We apply it to the evaluation of cerebrovascular deaths after stroke in Swedish stroke centers, using data from Riksstroke, the Swedish stroke registry. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Source: Statistics in Medicine - Category: Statistics Authors: Bart Van Rompaye, Marie Eriksson, Els Goetghebeur Tags: Research Article Source Type: research