No. 7 IN A SERIES
CARDIAC OUTCOMES:
TO FIND QUALITY,LOOK FOR "BetterTHAN EXPECTED"
Understanding a hospital's performance isn't as simple as looking for high or low survival rates. It's survival rates that reflect how sick their patients are - i.e., risk-adjusted survival rates.
So the industry devised a formula for risk-adjusted reports that compares a hospital's actual performance with its "expected" target.
Some hospitals will have an expected survival rate of 98 percent and others, 92 percent. A lower expected number is not a reflection of quality. Instead, it says this hospital's patient pool is very sick, thus high-risk, so its survival rate cannot be expected to exceed 92 percent.
Each hundredth-of-a-point "better than expected" is a hard-won victory against the odds. So look closely and see why we'revery proud.
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