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Published in final edited form as: Healthc (Amst). 2016 Dec 5;5(3):112–118. doi: 10.1016/j.hjdsi.2016.10.001

Table 1. Hospital-level Counts and Outcomes by Admission and Outcome Cohort.

VA Hospitals, FY2007-2010

	Acute Myocardial Infarction	Heart Failure	Pneumonia
30-day Mortality Cohort
# hospitals (n)	91	128	131
# discharges (n)	22,608	59,595	62,996
Median # discharges per hospital [range] (n)	193 [53 – 1,202]	435 [55 – 1,758]	428 [50 – 1,586]
# deaths within 30-days of admission (n)	2,202	4,695	6,431
30-day mortality rate (%)	9.7	7.9	10.2
Median 30-day mortality rate (%) per hospital [range]	9.9 [3.0 – 26.2]	8.0 [3.0 – 15.3]	9.7 [3.9 – 19.2]
30-day Readmission Cohort
# hospitals (n)	97	130	131
# discharges (n)	25,748	78,874	69,451
Median discharges per hospital (range) (n)	233 [50 – 1,132]	575 [58 – 2,730]	471 [53 – 1,462]
# readmissions within 30-days of admission (n)	5,172	17,560	11,410
30-day readmission rate (%)	20.1	22.3	16.4
Median 30-day readmissions rate (%) per hospital (range)	20.0 [8.3 – 31.1]	22.0 [10.1 – 30.9]	15.8 [7.1 – 22.7]