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Correlation between hospital finances and quality and safety of patient care

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  • Dean D Akinleye
  • Louise-Anne McNutt
  • Victoria Lazariu
  • Colleen C McLaughlin

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Background: Hospitals under financial pressure may struggle to maintain quality and patient safety and have worse patient outcomes relative to well-resourced hospitals. Poor predictive validity may explain why previous studies on the association between finances and quality/safety have been equivocal. This manuscript employs principal component analysis to produce robust measures of both financial status and quality/safety of care, to assess our a priori hypothesis: hospital financial performance is associated with the provision of quality care, as measured by quality and safety processes, patient outcomes, and patient centered care. Methods: This 2014 cross-sectional study investigated hospital financial condition and hospital quality and safety at acute care hospitals. The hospital financial data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) cost report were used to develop a composite financial performance score using principal component analysis. Hospital quality and patient safety were measured with a composite quality/safety performance score derived from principal component analysis, utilizing a range of established quality and safety indicators including: risk-standardized inpatient mortality, 30-day mortality, 30-day readmissions for select conditions, patient safety indicators from inpatient admissions, process of care chart reviews, CMS value-based purchasing total performance score and patient experience of care surveys. The correlation between the composite financial performance score and the composite quality/safety performance score was calculated using linear regression adjusting for hospital characteristics. Results: Among the 108 New York State acute care facilities for which data were available, there is a clear relationship between hospital financial performance and hospital quality/safety performance score (standardized correlation coefficient 0.34, p

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  • Dean D Akinleye & Louise-Anne McNutt & Victoria Lazariu & Colleen C McLaughlin, 2019. "Correlation between hospital finances and quality and safety of patient care," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(8), pages 1-19, August.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0219124
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0219124
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