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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Surg. 2019 May;269(5):873–878. doi: 10.1097/SLA.0000000000002737

Table 2.

Overall and procedure-specific risk-adjusted rates of readmission stratified by hospital ACO status and time period. The difference-in-differences represents the added effect of hospital ACO affiliation.

ACO Hospitals Non-ACO Hospitals Difference-in-
Differences
% (95% CI)
Pre
% (95% CI)
Post
% (95% CI)
p-
value
Pre
% (95% CI)
Post
% (95% CI)
p-
value
Overall Cohort 8.4 (8.1–8.7) 7.0 (6.7–7.3) <0.001 7.9 (7.8–8.0) 7.1 (6.9–7.2) <0.001 −0.52 (−0.97 to −0.08)
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair 13.5 (12.0–14.9) 10.3 (8.7–11.8) 0.001 12.7 (12.0–13.4) 10.3 (9.5–11.1) <0.001 −0.84 (−3.1 to 1.4)
Colectomy 15.9 (15.0–16.8) 13.8 (12.6–15.0) 0.004 15.2 (14.8–15.6) 14.3 (13.8–14.8) 0.004 −1.1 (−2.6 to 0.04)
Cystectomy 27.5 (22.4–32.6) 27.6 (22.0–33.3) 0.98 26.2 (23.7–28.7) 26.4 (23.3–29.5) 0.92 −0.12 (−7.6 to 7.4)
Prostatectomy 4.5 (3.6–5.5) 5.2 (3.4–7.0) 0.54 5.5 (4.9–6.1) 5.1 (4.3–5.9) 0.42 1.1 (−1.2 to 3.3)
Lung Resection 12.5 (11.3–13.8) 11.1 (9.7–12.6) 0.17 11.7 (11.0–12.3) 11.0 (10.3–11.7) 0.17 −0.75 (−2.3 to 1.4)
Total knee arthroplasty 5.9 (5.5–6.3) 4.4 (4.0–4.7) <0.001 5.2 (5.0–5.3) 4.6 (4.4–4.7) <0.001 −0.91 (−1.4 to −0.35)
Total hip arthroplasty 6.3 (5.8–6.8) 5.7 (5.1–6.3) 0.12 6.3 (6.1–6.6) 5.4 (5.2–5.7) <0.001 0.33 (−0.47 to 1.1)