{"id":2490,"date":"2024-01-11T15:39:32","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T20:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vizientse.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2490"},"modified":"2024-01-12T14:38:16","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T19:38:16","slug":"national-benchmark-study","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.vizientse.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=2490","title":{"rendered":"National Benchmark Study"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Data Source<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MedPAR Limited Data Set (LDS) files obtained from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) with 2,959 hospitals 11M+ inpatient records<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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MedPAR Data Exclusion\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Specialty hospitals (critical access, children’s, women\u2019s, psychiatric, substance abuse, rehabilitation, cardiac, orthopedic, heart, cancer, and long-term acute care)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Federally owned hospitals<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Non-US hospitals (such as those in Puerto Rico, Guam, and the US Virgin Islands)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hospitals with fewer than 25 acute care beds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hospitals with fewer than 100 Medicare patient discharges in the current data year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hospitals with Medicare average LOS longer than 25 days in the current data year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hospitals with no reported Medicare patient deaths in the current data year<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hospitals for which a current year Medicare Cost Report was not available<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Patients who were discharged to another short- term facility (done to avoid double- counting)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Patients who were not at least 65 years old<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Rehabilitation, psychiatric, and substance abuse patients<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Patients with stays shorter than one day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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Peer Group Methodology<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Major teaching hospitals <\/b>
\n400 more acute care beds in service and a resident-per-bed ratio of at least 0.25, or<\/strong>
\n250 more acute care beds in service and a resident-per-bed ratio of at least 0.55.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Teaching hospitals <\/b>
\n200 or more acute care beds in service and a resident-per-bed ratio of at least 0.03.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Large community hospitals <\/b>
\n250 or more acute care beds in service and not classified as a teaching hospital per the definition above.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Medium community hospitals<\/b>
\n100 to 249 acute care beds in service and not classified as a teaching hospital per
\nthe definition above.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Small community hospitals <\/b>
\n25 to 99 acute care beds in service.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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Expected Value Methodology<\/span><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Expected values for readmission rate, complication rate, length of stay, and mortality rate are calculated in the Vizient Southeast Performance Database, grouped by MS-DRG and Patient Age Group. <\/b><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n
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Results<\/span><\/h5>\n

Hospital Peer Group<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Measure Name<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Mean Index*<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Top Decile Index*<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

Small Community<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Average Length of Stay<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.84<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.64<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

Small Community<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Complications Index<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.93<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.19<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

Small Community<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Mortality Index<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.84<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.18<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

Medium Community<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Average Length of Stay<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.92<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.77<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

Medium Community<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Complications Index<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.94<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.45<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

Medium Community<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Mortality Index<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.96<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.57<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

Large Community<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Average Length of Stay<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.96<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.82<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

Large Community<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Complications Index<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.93<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.54<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

Large Community<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Mortality Index<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

1.00<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.69<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

Teaching<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Average Length of Stay<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.98<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.84<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

Teaching<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Complications Index<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.98<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.61<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

Teaching<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Mortality Index<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

1.02<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.66<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

Major Teaching<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Average Length of Stay<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

1.09<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.96<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

Major Teaching<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Complications Index<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

1.16<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.89<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

Major Teaching<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

Mortality Index<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

1.06<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td>

0.82<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr>

* Index = Observed Rate \/ Expected Rate<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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