Evidence of the Linkage Between Hospital-based Care Coordination Strategies and Hospital Overall (Star) Ratings
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9103230 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ivy Benjenk (0000-0002-5057-9300, Creative Commons), Luisa Franzini (0000-0002-7068-1185, Creative Commons), Jie Chen (0000-0002-9254-4413, Creative Commons) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 18-26 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Care (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948 |
| Publisher | Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1097/mlr.0000000000001226 |
| PMID | 31725493 |
| OpenAlex | W2986290907 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
BACKGROUND: In the new era of value-based payment models and pay for performance, hospitals are in search of the silver bullet strategy or bundle of strategies capable of improving their performance on quality measures. OBJECTIVES: To determine whether there is an association between adoption of hospital-based care coordination strategies and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services overall hospital quality (star) ratings and readmission rates. RESEARCH DESIGN: We used survey data from the American Hospital Association (AHA) and categorized respondents by the number of care coordination strategies that they reported having widely implemented. We used multiple logistic regression models to examine the association between the number of strategies and hospital overall rating performance and disease-specific 30-day excess readmission ratios, while controlling for hospital and county characteristics and state-fixed effects. SUBJECTS: A total of 710 general acute care noncritical access hospitals that received star ratings and responded to the 2015 AHA Care Systems and Payment Survey. MEASURES: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services overall hospital ratings, 30-day excess readmission ratios. RESULTS: As compared with hospitals with 0-2 strategies, hospitals with 3 to 4 strategies (P=0.007), 5-7 strategies (P=0.002), or 8-12 strategies (P=0.002) had approximately 2.5× the odds of receiving a top rating (4 or 5 stars). Care coordination strategies were positively associated with lower 30-day readmission ratios for patients with chronic medical conditions, but not for surgical patients. Medication reconciliation, visit summaries, outreach after discharge, discharge care plans, and disease management programs were each individually associated with top ratings. CONCLUSIONS: Care coordination strategies are associated with high overall hospital ratings
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |