Table 3.
Standardized factor loadings for 25 Commonly Used Indicators of Hospital Quality (loadings less than 0.150 in absolute value suppressed)
| Factor 1 | Factor 2 | Factor 3 | Factor 4 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heart attack patients given fibrinolytic agent within 30 minutes of arrival (AMI‐7a) | ||||
| Heart attack patients given PCI within 90 minutes of arrival (AMI‐8a) | 0.154 | |||
| Heart failure patients given discharge instructions (HF‐1) | 0.518 | |||
| Pneumonia patients whose initial emergency room blood culture was performed prior to the administration of the first hospital dose of antibiotics (PN‐3b) | 0.492 | |||
| Pneumonia patients given the most appropriate initial antibiotic (PN‐6) | 0.535 | |||
| Surgery patients who were given an antibiotic at the right time (within one hour before surgery) to help prevent infection (SCIP‐INF‐1) | 0.461 | |||
| Surgery patients who were given the right kind of antibiotic to help prevent infection (SCIP‐INF‐2) | 0.338 | 0.229 | ||
| Surgery patients whose preventive antibiotics were stopped at the right time (SCIP‐INF‐3) | 0.424 | |||
| Heart surgery patients whose blood sugar (blood glucose) is kept under good control in the days right after surgery (SCIP‐INF‐4) | ||||
| Surgery patients whose urinary catheters were removed on the first or second day after surgery (SCIP‐INF‐9) | 0.341 | |||
| Surgery patients on beta blockers before coming to the hospital who were kept on the beta blockers during the perioperative period (SCIP‐CARD‐2) | 0.37 | |||
| Surgery patients whose doctors ordered treatments to prevent blood clots after certain types of surgeries (SCIP‐VTE‐1) | 0.914 | |||
| Patients who got treatment at the right time to help prevent blood clots after certain types of surgery (SCIP‐VTE‐2) | 0.879 | |||
| Hospital always clean (H‐CLEAN‐HSP‐A‐P) | 0.744 | |||
| Hospital always quiet (H‐QUIET‐HSP‐A‐P) | 0.680 | −0.173 | ||
| Doctors always communicated well (H‐COMP‐2‐A‐P) | 0.812 | |||
| Nurses always communicated well (H‐COMP‐1‐A‐P) | 0.957 | |||
| Patients always received help (H_COMP_3_A_P) | 0.894 | |||
| Pain was always well controlled (H_COMP_4_A_P) | 0.832 | |||
| Staff gave discharge information (H_COMP_6_Y_P) | 0.538 | 0.334 | ||
| Staff always explained new medications (H_COMP_5_A_P) | 0.836 | |||
| Hospital rated 9‐10 (H_HSP_RATING_9_10) | 0.832 | 0.151 | ||
| PN morality rate (MORT_30_PN) | 0.585 | |||
| HF mortality rate (MORT_30_HF) | 0.649 | |||
| HA mortality rate (MORT_30_AMI) | 0.457 |