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The Relationship Between Organizational Factors and Performance Among Pay-for-
Performance Hospitals
Vina ER, Rhew DC, Weingarten SR, Weingarten JB, Chang JT.
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Background
• Pay for Performance (P4P)
• Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) Project
• Rewarding high performance hospitals with 2% bonus on Medicare payments
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Objective
• To identify the key quality improvement (QI) factors associated with higher performance in hospitals in a P4P program
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Sampling frame
• Hospitals participating in the HQID project across 5 clinical conditions or procedures:
– Acute myocardial infarction (AMI)
– Heart failure (HF)
– Pneumonia (PN)
– Total hip or total knee replacement (THR/TKR)
– Coronary artery bypass graft (CABG)
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Study sample
# participating hospitals, during year 2 of the HQID project = 255 exclude # hospitals that reported data for at least 3 of 5 clinical conditions or procedures = 223 exclude
# hospitals in deciles 3 to 8 = 131
# hospitals in the top 2 and bottom 2 deciles = 92
# hospitals that did NOT report data for at least 3 clinical conditions or procedures, withdrew or failed validation = 32
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Overall Composite Quality Score (O-CQS)
• Overall Composite Quality Score (O-CQS)
– Calculated by Premier, Inc.
– Utilized O-CQS from year 2(October 1, 2004 - September 30, 2005)
– Combines composite process score (CPS) and composite outcome score (COS)
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Structured telephone interview
• Telephone interviews were conducted by Zynx Health investigators (blinded to each hospital’s performance ranking): July, 2007 - October, 2007
• Average interview: ~35 minutes
• Respondents were asked to focus on theirQI activities during the past year
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QI domains
1. Quality improvement (QI) interventions
2. Data feedback systems (quality compliance)
3. Physician leadership
4. Organizational support for QI
5. Organizational culture
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Results
• 92 hospitals were eligible for the study
• 84 (91%) completed the interview
– 45 were in the top 2 deciles
– 39 were in the bottom 2 deciles
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Hospital characteristics
Characteristics Bottom Decile
(n = 39)
Top Decile
(n = 45) Mean number of beds 285 334 Geographic region Pacific 14 2 Mountain 0 1 Midwest 6 24 East 19 18 Demographics Urban 31 40 Rural 8 5 Teaching status Academic 7 8 Non-academic 32 37
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QI interventions
*P < .01
Order Sets
0 20 40 60 80 100
AMI
HF
PN
THR/TKR
CABG
Clin
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% Utilization
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QI interventions
*P < .01
Clinical Pathways
0 20 40 60 80 100
AMI
HF
PN
THR/TKR
CABG
Cli
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/Pro
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% Utilization
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QI interventions: Electronic capabilities
Electronic Capability Top Decile Bottom Decile
CPOE – hospital, %, (n) 24.4, (45)* 7.9, (38)*
Alerts for physicians, %, (n) 27.9, (43) 13.2, (38)
Alerts for nonphysicians, %, (n) 59.5, (42) 52.6, (38)
Paper-based order sets, %, (n) 92.9, (42) 94.9, (39) *P < .05.
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Data feedback
Frequency (month) Time Period (month) Top Deciles
Bottom Deciles
P value
Top Deciles
Bottom Deciles
P value
Collection of hospital-specific reports
1.47 1.44 ns 2.99 2.64 ns
Reporting physician-specific reports to Department Chair
3.40 6.13 ns 6.30 6.09 ns
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Physician leadership
• Among hospital CMOs with the general role of improving quality,
– Percentage who recruited “physician champions” (82.1% vs 69.4%, P<.05).
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Organizational support
Top Deciles
Bottom Deciles
Organizational Support Physicians strongly support QI 2.24 2.36 Hospital administrators strongly support QI 1.16 1.26 Nurses strongly support QI 1.78‡ 2.28‡ Physicians participate in QI projects 2.44 2.64 Physicians build order sets quickly 2.43 2.97 Adequate human resources for QI projects 2.18‡ 2.82‡ *P < .05; ‡P < .01 Likert scale: 1 = strongly agree, 5 = strongly disagree
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Organizational support
Top Deciles
Bottom Deciles
Organizational Support Physicians strongly support QI 2.24 2.36 Hospital administrators strongly support QI 1.16 1.26 Nurses strongly support QI 1.78‡ 2.28‡ Physicians participate in QI projects 2.44 2.64 Physicians build order sets quickly 2.43 2.97 Adequate human resources for QI projects 2.18‡ 2.82‡ *P < .05; ‡P < .01 Likert scale: 1 = strongly agree, 5 = strongly disagree
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Organizational support
Top Deciles
Bottom Deciles
Organizational Support Physicians strongly support QI 2.24 2.36 Hospital administrators strongly support QI 1.16 1.26 Nurses strongly support QI 1.78‡ 2.28‡ Physicians participate in QI projects 2.44 2.64 Physicians build order sets quickly 2.43 2.97 Adequate human resources for QI projects 2.18‡ 2.82‡ *P < .05; ‡P < .01 Likert scale: 1 = strongly agree, 5 = strongly disagree
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Organizational culture
Top Deciles
Bottom Deciles
Organizational Culture
Decision-making is participatory 1.87 1.95 Senior administrators see eye-to-eye with staff 2.43 2.54 Hospital is likely to be the first to try new QI activities 1.84‡ 3.10‡ Hospital has tried new QI activities with track record 4.13‡ 3.18‡ It is difficult to coordinate quality care 3.53‡ 2.87‡ Change takes place slowly 3.49‡ 2.23‡
Hospital assigns blame to individuals 4.51* 4.05* *P < .05; ‡P < .01 Likert scale: 1 = strongly agree, 5 = strongly disagree
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Organizational culture
Top Deciles
Bottom Deciles
Organizational Culture
Decision-making is participatory 1.87 1.95 Senior administrators see eye-to-eye with staff 2.43 2.54 Hospital is likely to be the first to try new QI activities 1.84‡ 3.10‡ Hospital has tried new QI activities with track record 4.13‡ 3.18‡ It is difficult to coordinate quality care 3.53‡ 2.87‡ Change takes place slowly 3.49‡ 2.23‡
Hospital assigns blame to individuals 4.51* 4.05* *P < .05; ‡P < .01 Likert scale: 1 = strongly agree, 5 = strongly disagree
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Organizational culture
Top Deciles
Bottom Deciles
Organizational Culture
Decision-making is participatory 1.87 1.95 Senior administrators see eye-to-eye with staff 2.43 2.54 Hospital is likely to be the first to try new QI activities 1.84‡ 3.10‡ Hospital has tried new QI activities with track record 4.13‡ 3.18‡ It is difficult to coordinate quality care 3.53‡ 2.87‡ Change takes place slowly 3.49‡ 2.23‡
Hospital assigns blame to individuals 4.51* 4.05* *P < .05; ‡P < .01 Likert scale: 1 = strongly agree, 5 = strongly disagree
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Organizational culture
Top Deciles
Bottom Deciles
Organizational Culture
Decision-making is participatory 1.87 1.95 Senior administrators see eye-to-eye with staff 2.43 2.54 Hospital is likely to be the first to try new QI activities 1.84‡ 3.10‡ Hospital has tried new QI activities with track record 4.13‡ 3.18‡ It is difficult to coordinate quality care 3.53‡ 2.87‡ Change takes place slowly 3.49‡ 2.23‡
Hospital assigns blame to individuals 4.51* 4.05* *P < .05; ‡P < .01 Likert scale: 1 = strongly agree, 5 = strongly disagree
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Organizational culture
Top Deciles
Bottom Deciles
Organizational Culture
Decision-making is participatory 1.87 1.95 Senior administrators see eye-to-eye with staff 2.43 2.54 Hospital is likely to be the first to try new QI activities 1.84‡ 3.10‡ Hospital has tried new QI activities with track record 4.13‡ 3.18‡ It is difficult to coordinate quality care 3.53‡ 2.87‡ Change takes place slowly 3.49‡ 2.23‡
Hospital assigns blame to individuals 4.51* 4.05* *P < .05; ‡P < .01 Likert scale: 1 = strongly agree, 5 = strongly disagree
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Limitations
• Voluntary participants in a P4P program
• Participants not blinded own performance rankings
• Unable to evaluate association of QI efforts to future performance
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Conclusions
• Main factors associated with high performance:
– Organizational structure
– Organizational support for QI
– Organizational culture
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Policy implications
• Strategies should encourage development of improved organizational structure, support and culture for quality
• Develop and strengthen resources to support QI activities
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Acknowledgements
• Zynx Health, Inc.
• Premier, Inc.
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
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• Questions?
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References
• (1) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) / Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project. Internet 2008 January 3;Available at: URL: http://www.premierinc.com/quality-safety/tools-services/p4p/hqi/hqi-whitepaper041306.pdf
• (2) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) / Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration Project. Internet 2008 January 3;Available at: URL: http://www.premierinc.com/quality-safety/tools-services/p4p/hqi/resources/hqi-whitepaper-year2.pdf
• (3) Lindenauer PK, Remus D, Roman S et al. Public reporting and pay for performance in hospital quality improvement. N Engl J Med 2007 February 1;356(5):486-96.
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BACK-UP SLIDES
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QI InterventionsTop Decilesa Bottom Decilesb Quality
Improvement Intervention
AMI HF PN THR/TKR
CABGc AMI HF PN THR/TKR
CABGc
OS with physician signature
93.3 88.9 93.3 91.1‡ 93.5 89.7 76.9 84.6 64.1‡ 87.5
Standing OS, no physician signature
20.0 8.9 48.9 4.4 6.5 12.8 5.1 51.3 2.6 6.3
Clinical pathways
48.9‡ 44.4‡ 37.8‡ 55.6‡ 45.2 15.4‡ 17.9‡ 12.8‡ 23.1‡ 31.3
Educational sessions, physicians
77.8 75.6 71.1 62.2 67.7 71.8 71.8 69.2 53.8 68.8
Educational sessions, nurses
86.7 86.7 82.2 71.1 74.2 76.9 74.4 76.9 79.3 68.8
Multidiscip-linary team
93.3* 93.3‡ 86.7 84.4 96.8 76.9* 69.2‡ 74.4 66.7 81.3
Abbreviation: OS, order sets. a(n=45) for AMI, HF, PN, THR/TKR & (n=31) for CABG. b(n=39) for AMI, HF, PN, THR/TKR & (n=16) for CABG. c Asked only of respondents of hospitals that performed CABG. *P < .05; ‡P < .01.
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QI Interventions
*P < .05; ‡P < .01.
Multidisciplinary Team
0 20 40 60 80 100
AMI
HF
PN
THR/TKR
CABG
Cli
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Results, Summary
Domain QI Factor (Clinical Condition, if Applicable) OS with physician signature (THR/TKR)‡ OS updated at least once in last year (THR/TKR)‡ Clinical pathways (AMI, HF, PN, THR/TKR)‡ Multidisciplinary team with the goal of improving quality (AMI†, HF‡)
QI interventions
CPOE hospital* Physician leadership
CMO, with the role of improving quality, recruiting “physician champions”* Nurses strongly support QI‡ Organizational
support Adequate human resources for QI projects‡ Is not difficult to coordinate quality care ‡ Change not taking place slowly ‡ Hospital not trying only new activities with track records‡ Hospital being likely to be the first to try new QI activities ‡
Organizational culture
Hospital not tending to assign blame to individuals * *P < .05; ‡P < .01