Health System Benchmarks
Thomson Reuters just released a white paper, “100 Top Hospitals®: Health System Quality/Efficiency Benchmarks Study,” that provides excellent national benchmarks on five clinical and efficiency measures that appear on many health system scorecards:
- Risk-adjusted mortality index
- Risk-adjusted complications index
- Risk-adjusted patient safety index
- Core measures mean percent
- Severity-adjusted average length of stay
Thomson Reuters evaluated the performance of U.S. health systems with at least two short-term general acute-care hospitals plus a few Critical Access Hospitals that passed its exclusion rules. You can access the study online for a complete explanation of the process and results.
Here are the relevant benchmarks:
|
Winning Health Systems |
Peer Group |
% Difference |
Best System |
|
| Mortality Index* |
0.82 |
1.00 |
17.6% |
0.63 |
| Complication Index* |
0.83 |
1.00 |
16.8% |
0.68 |
| Patient Safety Index* |
0.97 |
1.00 |
3.0% |
0.75 |
| Core Measures Average Score |
93.5% |
88.7% |
N/A |
95.8% |
| Average Length of Stay (days) |
5.0 |
5.6 |
10.7 |
4.1 |
(*based on national norms; ratings <1 indicate fewer adverse events than expected)
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