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Association of 30-Day Readmission Metric for Heart Failure Under the Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program With Quality of Care and Outcomes
- Source :
- JACC: Heart Failure. 4:935-946
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2016.
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Abstract
- Objectives This study sought to determine whether processes of care and long-term clinical outcomes for heart failure (HF) admissions across Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure (GWTG-HF) program participating centers differ according to HF-specific risk-adjusted 30-day readmission rates (excess readmission ratio [ERR]) as determined by the Hospital Readmission Reduction Program (HRRP). Background HRRP penalizes hospitals with higher than expected risk-adjusted 30-day readmission rates (ERR >1) for common conditions including HF. However, it is unclear whether the differences in this metric of hospital performance used by HRRP and related penalties are associated with measured quality of care and long-term outcomes. Methods We analyzed data from the GWTG-HF registry linked to Medicare claims from July 2008 to June 2011. Using publically available data on HF-ERR in 2013, we stratified the participating centers into groups with low (HF-ERR ≤1) versus high (HF-ERR >1) risk-adjusted readmission rates. We compared the care quality, in-hospital, and 1-year clinical outcomes across the 2 groups in unadjusted and multivariable adjusted analysis. Results The analysis included 171 centers with 43,143 participants; 49% of centers had high risk-adjusted 30-day readmission rates (HF-ERR >1). There were no differences between the low and high risk-adjusted 30-day readmission groups in median adherence rate to all performance measures (95.7% vs. 96.5%; p = 0.37) or median percentage of defect-free care (90.0% vs. 91.1%; p = 0.47). The composite 1-year outcome of death or all-cause readmission rates was also not different between the 2 groups (median 62.9% vs. 65.3%; p = 0.10). The high HF-ERR group had higher 1-year all-cause readmission rates (median 59.1% vs. 54.7%; p = 0.01). However, the 1-year mortality rates were lower among high versus low HF-ERR group with a trend toward statistical significance (median 28.2% vs. 31.7%; p = 0.07). Conclusions Quality of care and clinical outcomes were comparable among hospitals with high versus low risk-adjusted 30-day HF readmission rates. These findings raise questions about the validity of the HRRP performance metric in identifying and penalizing low-performance centers.
- Subjects :
- Male
Pediatrics
medicine.medical_specialty
Multivariate analysis
Information Storage and Retrieval
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
Patient Readmission
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Statistical significance
Outcome Assessment, Health Care
medicine
Humans
Registries
030212 general & internal medicine
Quality of care
Aged
Quality of Health Care
Aged, 80 and over
Heart Failure
Hospital readmission
business.industry
Mortality rate
Process Assessment, Health Care
Process of care
medicine.disease
Hospitals
Heart failure
Multivariate Analysis
Emergency medicine
Female
Metric (unit)
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 22131779
- Volume :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- JACC: Heart Failure
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....235d3a061c0a2f2977925031300cee9a