TY - JOUR
T1 - Feasibility of using administrative data to compare hospital performance in the EU
AU - Groene, O.
AU - Kristensen, S.
AU - Arah, O. A.
AU - Thompson, C. A.
AU - Bartels, P.
AU - Sunol, R.
AU - Klazinga, N.
AU - AUTHOR GROUP
AU - Kringos, D. S.
AU - Lombarts, M. J. M. H.
AU - Plochg, T.
AU - Lopez, M. A.
AU - Secanell, M.
AU - Vallejo, P.
AU - Michel, P.
AU - Saillour-Glenisson, F.
AU - Vlcek, F.
AU - Car, M.
AU - Jones, S.
AU - Klaus, E.
AU - Bottaro, S.
AU - Garel, P.
AU - Saluvan, M.
AU - Bruneau, C.
AU - Depaigne-Loth, A.
AU - Shaw, C.
AU - Hammer, A.
AU - Ommen, O.
AU - Pfaff, H.
AU - Botje, D.
AU - Wagner, C.
AU - Kutaj-Wasikowska, H.
AU - Kutryba, B.
AU - Escoval, A.
AU - Lívio, A.
AU - Eiras, M.
AU - Franca, M.
AU - Leite, I.
AU - Almeman, F.
AU - Kus, H.
AU - Ozturk, K.
AU - Mannion, R.
AU - Dersarkissian, M.
AU - Wang, A.
AU - Thompson, A.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - To describe hospitals' organizational arrangements relevant to the abstraction of administrative data, to report on the completeness of administrative data collected and to assess associations between organizational arrangements and completeness of data submission. A cross-sectional study design utilizing administrative data. Randomly selected hospitals from seven European countries (The Czech Republic, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey). Completeness of data submission for four quality indicators: mortality after acute myocardial infarction, stroke and hip fractures and complications after normal delivery. In general, hospitals were able to produce data on the four indicators required for this research study. A substantial proportion had missing data on one or more data items. The proportion of hospitals that was able to produce more detailed indicators of relevance for quality monitoring and improvement was low and ranged from 40.1% for thrombolysis performed on patients with acute ischemic stroke to 63.8% for hip-fracture operations performed within 48 h after admission for patients aged 65 or older. National factors were strong predictors of data completeness on the studied indicators. At present, hospital administrative databases do not seem to be an appropriate source of information for comparison of hospital performance across the countries of the EU. However, given that this is a dynamic field, changes to administrative databases may make this possible in the near future. Such changes could be accelerated by an in-depth comparative analysis of the issues of using administrative data for comparisons of hospital performances in EU countries
AB - To describe hospitals' organizational arrangements relevant to the abstraction of administrative data, to report on the completeness of administrative data collected and to assess associations between organizational arrangements and completeness of data submission. A cross-sectional study design utilizing administrative data. Randomly selected hospitals from seven European countries (The Czech Republic, France, Germany, Poland, Portugal, Spain, and Turkey). Completeness of data submission for four quality indicators: mortality after acute myocardial infarction, stroke and hip fractures and complications after normal delivery. In general, hospitals were able to produce data on the four indicators required for this research study. A substantial proportion had missing data on one or more data items. The proportion of hospitals that was able to produce more detailed indicators of relevance for quality monitoring and improvement was low and ranged from 40.1% for thrombolysis performed on patients with acute ischemic stroke to 63.8% for hip-fracture operations performed within 48 h after admission for patients aged 65 or older. National factors were strong predictors of data completeness on the studied indicators. At present, hospital administrative databases do not seem to be an appropriate source of information for comparison of hospital performance across the countries of the EU. However, given that this is a dynamic field, changes to administrative databases may make this possible in the near future. Such changes could be accelerated by an in-depth comparative analysis of the issues of using administrative data for comparisons of hospital performances in EU countries
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzu015
DO - https://doi.org/10.1093/intqhc/mzu015
M3 - Article
C2 - 24554645
SN - 1353-4505
VL - 26
SP - 108
EP - 115
JO - International Journal for Quality in Health Care
JF - International Journal for Quality in Health Care
IS - 1
ER -