Concordance and robustness of quality indicator sets for hospitals: an analysis of routine data

Table 2 Correlation coefficients for the relative frequency of conspicuous indicator results

		HELIOS indicator set						3 M PSI	SP Mort	SP LOS
		3 M HELIOS group	3 M HELIOS target	InMed HELIOS assessment	InMed HELIOS benchmarking	InMed HELIOS rates	InMed HELIOS target
3 M HELIOS group	Coefficient		0.867 (0.523-0.968)	0.571 (-0.092-0.883)	0.903 (0.634-0.977)	0.855 (0.488-0.965)	0.891 (0.595-0.974)	0.304 (-0.403-0.784)	0.413 (-0.293-0.827)	0.426 (-0.278-0.832)
	Sig. (2-sided)		0.001	0.084	0.000	0.002	0.001	0.393	0.235	0.220
3 M HELIOS target	Coefficient			0.559 (-0.109-0.879)	0.915 (0.673-0.980)	0.673 (0.075-0.915)	0.927 (0.714-0.983)	0.000 (-0.630-0.630)	0.292 (-0.414-0.779)	0.085 (-0.575-0.678)
	Sig. (2-sided)			0.093	0.000	0.033	0.000	1.000	0.413	0.815
InMed HELIOS assessment	Coefficient				0.657 (0.047-0.910)	0.802 (0.348-0.951)	0.693 (0.112-0.921)	0.405 (-0.302-0.824)	0.811 (0.371-0.954)	0.409 (-0.253-0.810)
	Sig. (2-sided)				0.039	0.005	0.026	0.245	0.004	0.241
InMed HELIOS benchmarking	Coefficient					0.855 (0.488-0.965)	0.915 (0.673-0.980)	0.036 (-0.607-0.651)	0.529 (-0.151-0.869)	0.188 (-0.501-0.731)
	Sig. (2-sided)					0.002	0.000	0.920	0.116	0.602
InMed HELIOS rates	Coefficient						0.770 (0.272-0.943)	0.353 (-0.356-0.804)	0.723 (0.171-0.930)	0.547 (-0.126-0.875)
	Sig. (2-sided)						0.009	0.318	0.018	0.102
InMed HELIOS target	Coefficient							0.128 (-0.546-0.701)	0.498 (-0.192-0.858)	0.128 (-0.546-0.701)
	Sig. (2-sided)							0.725	0.143	0.725
3 M PSI	Coefficient								0.396 (-0.311-0.821)	0.829 (0.417-0.958)
	Sig. (2-sided)								0.257	0.003
SP Mort	Coefficient									0.341 (-0.368-0.799)
	Sig. (2-sided)									0.334
SP LOS	Coefficient
	Sig. (2-sided)

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