Health Policy Manag.  2016 Dec;26(4):359-372. 10.4332/KJHPA.2016.26.4.359.

Evaluation of the Validity of Risk-Adjustment Model of Acute Stroke Mortality for Comparing Hospital Performance

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea. sleemd@amc.seoul.kr
  • 2Department of Nursing, Dankook University College of Nursing, Cheonan, Korea.

Abstract

BACKGROUND
The purpose of this study was to develop risk-adjustment models for acute stroke mortality that were based on data from Health Insurance Review and Assessment Service (HIRA) dataset and to evaluate the validity of these models for comparing hospital performance.
METHODS
We identified prognostic factors of acute stroke mortality through literature review. On the basis of the avaliable data, the following factors was included in risk adjustment models: age, sex, stroke subtype, stroke severity, and comorbid conditions. Survey data in 2014 was used for development and 2012 dataset was analysed for validation. Prediction models of acute stroke mortality by stroke type were developed using logistic regression. Model performance was evaluated using C-statistics, R2 values, and Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness-of-fit statistics.
RESULTS
We excluded some of the clinical factors such as mental status, vital sign, and lab finding from risk adjustment model because there is no avaliable data. The ischemic stroke model with age, sex, and stroke severity (categorical) showed good performance (C-statistic=0.881, Hosmer-Lemeshow test p=0.371). The hemorrhagic stroke model with age, sex, stroke subtype, and stroke severity (categorical) also showed good performance (C-statistic=0.867, Hosmer-Lemeshow test p=0.850).
CONCLUSION
Among risk adjustment models we recommend the model including age, sex, stroke severity, and stroke subtype for HIRA assessment. However, this model may be inappropriate for comparing hospital performance due to several methodological weaknesses such as lack of clinical information, variations across hospitals in the coding of comorbidities, inability to discriminate between comorbidity and complication, missing of stroke severity, and small case number of hospitals. Therefore, further studies are needed to enhance the validity of the risk adjustment model of acute stroke mortality.

Keyword

Risk adjustment; Stroke; Mortality; Quality of health care

MeSH Terms

Clinical Coding
Comorbidity
Dataset
Insurance, Health
Logistic Models
Mortality*
Quality of Health Care
Risk Adjustment
Stroke*
Vital Signs
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