Abstract
Quality of care for patients admitted with pneumonia varies across hospitals, but causes of this variation are poorly understood. Whether hospitals with high ICU utilization for patients with pneumonia provide better quality care is unknown. We sought to investigate the relationship between a hospital's ICU admission rate for elderly patients with pneumonia and the quality of care it provided to patients with pneumonia. Retrospective cohort study. Two thousand eight hundred twelve U.S. hospitals. Elderly (age≥65 years) fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries with either a (1) principal diagnosis of pneumonia or (2) principal diagnosis of sepsis or respiratory failure and secondary diagnosis of pneumonia in 2008. None. We grouped hospitals into quintiles based on ICU admission rates for pneumonia. We compared rates of failure to deliver pneumonia processes of care (calculated as 100-adherence rate), 30-day mortality, hospital readmissions, and Medicare spending across hospital quintile. After controlling for other hospital characteristics, hospitals in the highest quintile more often failed to deliver pneumonia process measures, including appropriate initial antibiotics (13.0% vs 10.7%; p<0.001), and pneumococcal vaccination (15....Continue Reading
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