100 Top Hospitals®: Cardiovascular
Benchmarks for Success — 2003

Findings

The aim of the 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success study is to provide benchmarks as a tool for performance improvement for use by all hospitals that provide cardiac care. The benchmarks themselves demonstrate levels of performance that can be achieved and serve as a target for peer hospitals.

Based on comparisons between the Solucient 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks Hospitals and a peer group limited to similar high-volume hospitals, we estimate that:

• If peer hospitals (non-winners) provided the same quality of care as the 100 Top hospitals, survival rates would increase by 4,000 patients each year.

• Complications of care could also decrease in peer hospitals. An additional 1,400 patients could be complication-free.

In this year’s Finding’s section, we:

• Summarize our study of the top treatment technique for bypass surgery—the use of internal mammary arteries—revealing inconsistent use of the method between males and females and blacks and whites, and among different regions of the country.

• Introduce our concept of complete hospital performance reporting, in which we expand the 100 Top benchmark analysis to reflect outcomes for the majority of patients, in human terms and range of statistical variation, to complement traditional epidemiological benchmarks used for internal performance improvement.

• Provide performance measure data, and in doing so, identify performance differences between benchmark hospitals and their peers.

For full details, the 2003 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success study abstract is now available!

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