United States rural hospital quality in the Hospital Compare database--Accounting for hospital characteristics

L. Elizabeth Goldman and R. Adams Dudley

Health Policy, 2008, vol. 87, issue 1, 112-127

Abstract: Background Rural hospitals in the United States have demonstrated lower adherence to evidence based guidelines than their urban counterparts in national public reporting initiatives. We compared the quality of rural hospitals participating in a public reporting initiative to that of their urban counterparts using Hospital Compare, a new national database containing process measures.Methods Cross-sectional analyses of hospitals participating in Hospital Compare in 2005, evaluating percent adherence to guidelines for 10 processes of care for acute myocardial infarction (AMI), heart failure (HF), and community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) using multivariable linear regression analyses.Results Participating rural hospitals demonstrated lower adherence to evidence based guidelines in MI and HF quality measures (pÂ

Date: 2008
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