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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Aug 9.
Published in final edited form as: Ann Intern Med. 2017 Sep 26;167(8):555–564. doi: 10.7326/M16-2871

Table 2.

Hospital Ranking Agreements for Older Patients and Younger Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction

Hospital 30-Day RSMRs* for Older Patients ≥65 Years-Old
Hospital 30-Day RSMRs* for Younger Patients 18–64 Years-Old Top 20%
(n=153)		 Middle 60%
(n=456)		 Bottom 20%
(n=150)
Top 20% (n=158) 61 82 15
Middle 60% (n=447) 84 292 71
Bottom 20% (n=154) 8 82 64
Hospital 30-Day RSMRs* for Younger Patients 18–64 Years-Old Top 10%
(n=77)		 Middle 80%
(n=608)		 Bottom 10%
(n=74)
Top 10% (n=79) 25 52 2
Middle 80% (n=605) 51 503 51
Bottom 10% (n=75) 1 53 21
Hospital 30-Day RSMRs* for Younger Patients 18–64 Years-Old Better-Than-Expected
(n=62)		 No Different-Than-Expected
(n=628)		 Worse-Than-Expected
(n=69)
Better-Than-Expected (n=10) 6 4 0
No Different-Than-Expected (n=728) 56 613 59
Worse-Than-Expected (n=21) 0 11 10

Each cell in table indicates number of hospitals (total N=759 hospitals, 227 hospitals omitted due to <50 AMI hospitalizations among older adults or younger adults). Shaded cells correspond to movements in hospital mortality rankings for older patients compared with younger patients.

*

RSMR: risk-standardized mortality rate.