Relationship between hospital performance measures and outcomes in patients with acute ischaemic stroke: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Evidence-based performance measures have been increasingly used to evaluate hospital quality of stroke care, but their impact on stroke outcomes has not been verified. We aimed to evaluate the correlations between hospital performance measures and outcomes among patients with acute ischaemic stroke in a Chinese population.

Methods

Data were derived from a prospective cohort, which included 120 hospitals participating in the China National Stroke Registry between September 2007 and August 2008. Adherence to nine evidence-based performance measures was examined, and the composite score of hospital performance measures was calculated. The primary stroke outcomes were hospital-level, 30-day and 1-year risk-standardised mortality (RSM). Associations of individual perfor

SUBMITTER: Zhang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6074631 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature