Hospital quality measures: are process indicators associated with hospital standardized mortality ratios in French acute care hospitals?

Table 1 Distributions of Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratios for the five inpatient populations included in HPIs’ denominators

HSMRs	Global (N = 1284)		Specific to HPI1 (N = 1064)		Specific to HPI2 (N = 304)		Specific to HPI3 (N = 730)		Specific to HPI4 (N = 949)		Specific to HPI5 (N = 1068)
HSMRs	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	Median	IQR
30 dpa	0.94	[0.83–1.13]	1.00	[0.90–1.16]	0.30	[0.00–1.29]	0.91	[0.74–1.10]	1.01	[0.88–1.17]	0.97	[0.87–1.09]
60 dpa	0.96	[0.86–1.10]	0.97	[0.89–1.10]	0.62	[0.00–1.19]	0.94	[0.81–1.08]	0.99	[0.86–1.12]	0.97	[0.90–1.09]
90 dpa	0.97	[0.89–1.09]	0.98	[0.90–1.08]	0.72	[0.25–1.17]	0.96	[0.83–1.08]	1.00	[0.87–1.10]	0.97	[0.90–1.08]

HPI Hospital Process indicators, HPI 1 Nutritional Disorders, HPI 2 Beta-blockers. Antiplatelet agent. Statin and ace Inhibitor, HPI 3 Multidisciplinary Team Meetings in management, HPI 4 Completeness and Quality for Anesthetic Records, HPI 5 Completeness and Quality of Medical Reports contents, HSMR Hospital Standardized Mortality Ratio, dpa day post admission

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