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Benchmarks for Success — 2002
Introduction
Now in its fourth year, the Solucient 100 Top Hospitals®: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success study identifies hospitals that are setting benchmark levels of performance for cardiovascular services throughout the nation. The 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success study is part of the Solucient 100 Top Hospitals® initiative, originally developed in 1993. The primary objective is to identify the top hospitals in the United States based solely upon empirical findings from publicly available performance data, and in doing so:
- Acknowledge high-performing cardiovascular clinical and management teams and seek to determine what drives their performance
- Raise overall performance levels for cardiovascular care
- Establish an annual baseline for cardiovascular service performance given a hospital's clinical business and the industry's financial limitations, and
- Help all hospitals use the benchmarks to reach the performance level of the Solucient 100 Top Hospitals.
- Assist managed care organizations, other insurers, and research organizations in their own pursuit of understanding differences in hospital performance.
The ultimate goal of the Solucient 100 Top Hospitals: Cardiovascular Benchmarks for Success study is to provide guidelines to improve the standard of care in cardiology. By identifying hospitals that display superior performance in the clinical management of cardiovascular disease, we offer the health care industry a direction for positive change and information to help decrease the variations in quality and financial performance that continue to plague health care today.
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 nearly 4,400 patients each year.
- Nearly $880 million dollars could be saved in one year alone-that's a average savings of more than $1,400 in cardiology costs per case for each peer hospital.
- Complications of care could also decrease in peer hospitals. Infections after surgery would plummet by nearly 18 percent, and post-procedural hemorrhage could fall 26 percent.
- The length of stay for cardiac patients could fall in peer hospitals by more than half a day on average. Nationally, we estimate that this could eliminate 402,000 patient days a year.
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Introduction