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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jun 5.
Published in final edited form as: Med Care. 2012 May;50(5):406–409. doi: 10.1097/MLR.0b013e318245a0f9

Table 1.

FFS Risk Profiles and Outcome Measures among 304 Hospital Referral Regions

Min. 25th Percentile Median 75th Percentile Max.
Expected Rate of Death
 Heart Failure 9.2 10.9 11.4 11.8 13.1
 Acute Myocardial Infarction 13.2 15.9 16.6 17.6 22.2
 Pneumonia 9.4 10.9 11.4 11.8 14.3
Expected Rate of Readmission
 Heart Failure 21.8 23.6 24.2 24.8 27.2
 Acute Myocardial Infarction 16.1 18.8 19.6 20.2 23.8
 Pneumonia 15.6 17.2 17.7 18.3 21.0
RSMR*
 Heart Failure 7.6 10.5 11.2 11.9 14.2
 Acute Myocardial Infarction 12.6 15.2 15.9 16.6 19.1
 Pneumonia 8.8 10.8 11.4 12.1 16.3
RSRR‡
 Heart Failure 20.1 23.4 24.2 25.0 28.9
 Acute Myocardial Infarction 16.3 18.9 19.6 20.3 23.2
 Pneumonia 14.6 17.4 18.0 18.7 22.5
*

RSMR indicates risk-standardized mortality rate, expressed as a percentage.

‡

RSRR indicates risk-standardized readmission rate, expressed as a percentage.