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Table 2 Top five Case Mix Groups*

From: Does implementation of a hospitalist program in a Canadian community hospital improve measures of quality of care and utilization? an observational comparative analysis of hospitalists vs. traditional care providers

 

Top 5 CMG Plus, from 2007 to 2010 (n)

Top 5 CMG, from 2003 to 2007 (n)

Traditional-FP

- Palliative care (36)

- Simple pneumonia and pleurisy (184)

N = 2911

- COPD (31)

- Specific cerebrovascular disorders except transient is chemic attacks (178)

-Viral/unspecified pneumonia (28)

- Esophagitis, gastroenteritis and miscellaneous digestive    disease (140)

- General symptoms/signs (26)

- COPD (114)

- Heart failure without cardiac catheter (23)

- Chronic bronchitis (106)

FP-Hospitalist

- COPD (660)

- COPD (470)

N = 16 475

- Palliative care (455)

- Chronic bronchitis (434)

- Viral/unspecified pneumonia (370)

- Other specified aftercare (405)

- Heart failure without cardiac catheter (352)

- Esophagitis, gastroenteritis and miscellaneous digestive    disease (404)

- Ischemic event of central nervous system (312)

- Heart failure (401)

GIM-Hospitalist

- COPD (237)

- AMI without cardiac catheter without specified cardiac    conditions (12)

N = 2135

- Heart failure without cardiac catheter (221)

- Arrhythmia (8)

- Viral/unspecified pneumonia (89)

- Heart failure (7)

- Diabetes (77)

- Diabetes (6)

- Myocardial infarction/shock/arrest without cardiac catheter (77)

- Chest pain (6)

Other IM

- Myocardial infarction/shock/arrest with cardiac catheter (498)

- AMI without cardiac catheter without specified cardiac    conditions (757)

N = 13 002

- Arrhythmia without cardiac catheter (306)

- Arrhythmia (584)

- Angina (except unstable)/chest pain without cardiac catheter (271)

- Heart failure (559)

- Unstable angina/atherosclerotic heart disease without cardiac    catheter (205)

- Unstable angina without cardiac catheter without specified    cardiac conditions (531)

- Heart failure without cardiac catheter (204)

  1. Legend: *Case Mix Groups (CMG) are aggregates of acute care inpatients with similar resource utilization; the Canadian Institute of Health Information developed CMG for use until 2007 when an enhanced version (CMG+) was introduced.
  2. FP = family physician, GIM = general internal medicine, IM = internal medicine, COPD = chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, AMI = acute myocardial infarction.