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Aultman Care Measures
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, in conjunction with its partners in the Hospital Quality Alliance, launched a Web site called Hospital Compare. The site includes data on 20 measures of quality of care in the areas of heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical infection prevention. The goals of Hospital Compare are to improve the care provided by U.S. hospitals, while giving health care consumers easy access to quality information.
The data below covers discharged patients for the reporting period from the third quarter of 2008 through the second quarter of 2009.
| Hospital Quality Measures | Aultman's Performance Aggregate Rate for All Four Quarters | State Average | National Average | | Heart Attack | | Aspirin at Arrival | 99% of 367 patients | 95% | 94% | | Aspirin Prescribed at Discharage | 99% of 563 patients | 92% | 93% | | ACEI or ARB for LVSD | 96% of 103 patients | 92% | 92% | | Adult Smoking Cessation
Advice/Counseling | 100% of 216 patients | 97% | 96% | | Beta-Blocker Prescribed at Discharge | 100% of 470 patients | 96% | 94% | | Fibrinolytic Therapy Received Withn 30 Minutes of Hospital Arrival | 0 patients | 70% | 45% | | Primary PCI Received Within 90 Minutes of Hospital Arrival | 93% of 107 patients | 81% | 81% | | Heart Failure | | Discharge Instructions | 85% of 520 patients | 84% | 78% | | Evaluation of LVS Function | 100% of 652 patients | 96% | 90% | | ACEI or ARB for LVSD | 98% of 198 patients | 91% | 90% | | Adult Smoking Cessation
Advice/Counseling | 100% of 125 patients | 94% | 92% | | Pneumonia | | Pneumococcal Vaccination | 94% of 505 patients | 91% | 86% | | Blood Cultures Performed in the Emergency Department Prior to Initial Antibiotic Received in Hospital | 97% of 504 patients | 94% | 92% | | Adult Smoking Cessation
Advice/Counseling | 96% of 246 patients | 95% | 90% | | Initial Antibiotic Received Within Six Hours of Hospital Arrival | 97% of 483 patients | 95% | 94% | | Initial Antibiotic Selection for CAP in Immunocompetent Patient | 96% of 320 patients | 90% | 88% | | Influenza Vaccination* | 92% of 390 patients | 89% | 85% | | Surgical Care Improvement | | Prophylactic Antibiotic Received Within One Hour Prior to Surgical Incision | 95% of 524 patients(2) | 93% | 91% | | Prophylactic Antibiotic Selection for Surgical Patients | 99% of 540 patients(2) | 96% | 95% | | Prophylactic Antibiotics Discontinued Within 24 Hours After Surgery End Time | 93% of 510 patients(2) | 92% | 90% | | Cardiac Surgery Patients with Controlled 6 a.m. Postoperative Blood Glucose | 95% of 171 patients(2) | 90% | 89% | | Surgery Patients with Appropriate Hair Removal | 100% of 723 patients(2) | 99% | 97% | | Surgery Patients on Beta-Blocker Therapy Prior to Admission Who Received a Beta-Blocker During the Perioperative Period | 95% of 123 patients(2) | 89%
| 87% | | Surgery Patients with Recommended Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis Ordered | 91% of 225 patients(2) | 92% | 88% | | Surgery Patients Who Received Appropriate Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis Within 24 Hours After Surgery | 86% of 225 patients(2) | 89% | 86% | Footnote Legend 0 Patients: This hospital treated patients in this condition, but no patients met the criteria for inclusion in the measure calculation.
1. The number of cases is too small (n<25) for the purposes of reliably predicting hospital information.
2. Measure reflects the hospital's indication that its submission was based upon a sample of its relevant discharges.
3. Rate reflects fewer than maximum possible quarters of date.
4. Inaccurate information submitted and suppressed for one or more quarters.
5. No data are available for publication from the hospital for this measure.
*PN-7 is reported by Flu Season ONLY. | |
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