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Measuring Hospital Performance in Congenital Heart Surgery: Administrative Versus Clinical Registry Data

Monday, March 2, 2015

Submitted by

Mark Ferguson

Source

Source Name: Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Source URL: http://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(14)02089-X/abstract

Author(s)

Sara K. Pasquali, Xia He, Jeffrey P. Jacobs, Marshall L. Jacobs, Michael G. Gaies, Samir S. Shah, Matthew Hall, J. William Gaynor, Eric D. Peterson, John E. Mayer, Jennifer C. Hirsch-Romano

This study examined the utility/accuracy of an administrative database compared to the STS Congenital Database for the outcome of mortality, which is used to rank quality. The administrative database had substantially lower volume and mortality numbers than the STS Database, resulting in ranking differences of 5 or more places for 24% of hospitals.