寻找一个测量心脏外科手术质量和过程的结果变量:比较质量过程指数和死亡率
Paulien C Hoefsmit1, Evert K Jansen1, Ronald J M M Does2
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Amsterdam University Medical Centre, 1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland)
|May 27, 2023
概括
一个新的质量流程指数 (QPI) 为医疗保健质量和流程改进提供了稳定的衡量标准. 它提供了比波动的死亡率更全面的观点,有助于临床实践的见解.
科学领域:
- 改善医疗保健质量 改善医疗保健质量
- 临床数据分析 临床数据分析
- 手术过程监测 手术过程监测
背景情况:
- 将大量的临床数据转化为日常实践中的可操作见解仍然是一个挑战.
- 由于数据量,医院级质量和流程评估通常是压倒性的.
- 开发了一种新的质量过程指数 (QPI),以总结用于质量测量的临床数据.
研究的目的:
- 开发和验证一个质量流程指数 (QPI) 来衡量医疗保健质量和流程.
- 将QPI与传统的死亡率进行比较,作为质量指标.
- 分析十年来心脏外科手术质量和流程的演变.
主要方法:
- 质量过程指数 (QPI) 是使用来自阿姆斯特丹心脏外科数据库 (2011-2021,n=5497) 的数据构建的.
- 对各种手术类型的QPI和死亡率 (30天和120天) 的回顾性分析.
- 统计比较QPI稳定性与死亡率波动.
主要成果:
- 平均质量流程指数 (QPI) 保持相对稳定,尽管在统计学上有显著的年差异 (p < 0.001).
- 死亡率显示出更多的波动,30天或120天结果的平均值没有显著差异.
- 在QPI和死亡率之间发现了统计学上显著的负相关性 (r=-0.07为30天,r=-0.12为120天).
结论:
- 质量过程指数 (QPI) 有效地将复杂的临床数据转化为质量和过程改进的可量化的衡量标准.
- 虽然死亡率至关重要,但QPI为评估医疗保健质量趋势提供了更稳定,更全面的指标.
- 该QPI提高了对医疗保健机构质量和流程改进的理解和量化.
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