TY - JOUR
T1 - Reporting information on emergency department crowding to the hospital board and delivery of time-sensitive care
AU - McHugh, Megan
AU - Kang, Raymond
AU - Cohen, Alan B.
AU - Restucci, Joseph D.
AU - Hasnain-Wynia, Romana
N1 - Funding Information:
This study was supported by the Commonwealth Fund , grant number 2007022 .
PY - 2012/5
Y1 - 2012/5
N2 - Background: Hospital governing boards influence the quality of care that hospitals provide by holding senior leaders and managers accountable. A study was conducted to determine whether reporting data on emergency department (ED) crowding to hospital boards was associated with better performance on a time-sensitive quality measure for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI): Primary PCI [percutaneous intervention] Within 90 Minutes of Hospital Arrival. Methods: In a survey, hospital chief quality officers were asked whether the following data were reported to the hospital governing board: ED wait times, the percentage of ED patients who left without being seen (LWBS), and the percentage of admitted ED patients who are boarded in the ED. Responses were paired with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data on the percentage of eligible AMI patients who received PCI within 90 minutes of arrival, which served as the hospitals' PCI score. Results: In the sample of 261 hospitals, 133 (51%) of hospital governing boards received data on wait times, 125 (48%) received data on LWBS, and 63 (24%) received data on ED boarding. After hospital characteristics were controlled for, hospitals that reported data on ED boarding to the governing board had PCI scores that were 5.5 percentage points higher (that is, better); p < .05. There was no association between reporting wait times or LWBS to the board and PCI scores. Conclusion: Reporting data on the incidence of ED boarding to hospital governing boards was associated with better performance for PCI. More research is needed to explore the direction of this relationship, but the results suggest that hospitals should consider reporting data on ED boarding to their boards as a low/no-cost quality improvement activity. Copyright 2012
AB - Background: Hospital governing boards influence the quality of care that hospitals provide by holding senior leaders and managers accountable. A study was conducted to determine whether reporting data on emergency department (ED) crowding to hospital boards was associated with better performance on a time-sensitive quality measure for patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI): Primary PCI [percutaneous intervention] Within 90 Minutes of Hospital Arrival. Methods: In a survey, hospital chief quality officers were asked whether the following data were reported to the hospital governing board: ED wait times, the percentage of ED patients who left without being seen (LWBS), and the percentage of admitted ED patients who are boarded in the ED. Responses were paired with Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) data on the percentage of eligible AMI patients who received PCI within 90 minutes of arrival, which served as the hospitals' PCI score. Results: In the sample of 261 hospitals, 133 (51%) of hospital governing boards received data on wait times, 125 (48%) received data on LWBS, and 63 (24%) received data on ED boarding. After hospital characteristics were controlled for, hospitals that reported data on ED boarding to the governing board had PCI scores that were 5.5 percentage points higher (that is, better); p < .05. There was no association between reporting wait times or LWBS to the board and PCI scores. Conclusion: Reporting data on the incidence of ED boarding to hospital governing boards was associated with better performance for PCI. More research is needed to explore the direction of this relationship, but the results suggest that hospitals should consider reporting data on ED boarding to their boards as a low/no-cost quality improvement activity. Copyright 2012
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U2 - 10.1016/s1553-7250(12)38029-x
DO - 10.1016/s1553-7250(12)38029-x
M3 - Article
C2 - 22649863
AN - SCOPUS:84862232904
SN - 1553-7250
VL - 38
SP - 229
EP - 234
JO - Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
JF - Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety
IS - 5
ER -