Table 2.
Change in Hospital Compare Performance Using VA-only versus VA/Medicare Data: FY 2008–2010
| VA/Medicare | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VA-Only | Worse-Than-Expected | As-Expected | Better-Than-Expected | Total |
| AMI | ||||
| Worse-than-expected | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| As-expected | 0 | 93 | 0 | 93 |
| Better-than-expected | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 0 | 94 | 0 | 94 |
| HF | ||||
| Worse-than-expected | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| As-expected | 0 | 119 | 0 | 119 |
| Better-than-expected | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Total | 6 | 121 | 2 | 129 |
| PN | ||||
| Worse-than-expected | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| As-expected | 0 | 118 | 2 | 120 |
| Better-than-expected | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Total | 8 | 118 | 4 | 130 |
Cell values indicate number of hospitals. Worse-than-expected: hospital's lower risk-standardized readmission rate (RSRR) confidence interval (CI) greater than the national observed rate. As-expected: hospital's RSRR CI covers the national observed rate. Better-than-expected: hospital's upper RSRR CI less than the national observed rate.
AMI, acute myocardial infarction; HF, heart failure; PN, pneumonia.