Stability of hospital quality indicators over time: A multi-year observational study of German hospital data

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 18; no. 11; p. e0293723
• Main Authors: Kollmann, Nils Patrick, Langenberger, Benedikt, Busse, Reinhard, Pross, Christoph
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Public Library of Science 07.11.2023; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Biology and Life Sciences; Correlation coefficient; Correlation coefficients; Datasets; Evaluation; Generalized linear models; Graphical representations; Health care industry; Health care policy; Health care reform; Health policy; Hospitals; Indicators; Information management; Medical care; Medicine and Health Sciences; Missing data; Monitoring systems; Observational studies; Patients; People and places; Quality control; Quality management; R&D; Ratios; Regression analysis; Research & development; Stability; Statistical analysis; Time dependence; Germany; United States > US

Retrospective hospital quality indicators can only be useful if they are trustworthy signals of current or future quality. Despite extensive longitudinal quality indicator data and many hospital quality public reporting initiatives, research on quality indicator stability over time is scarce and ske...