St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center: Myocardial Infarction Quality Measures

Myocardial Infarction
Quality Measures
Aspirin on admission
Beta blocker on admission
Aspirin at discharge
Beta blocker at discharge
ACEI or ARB
Chest pain center
Smoking cessation
Availability of PTCA
Inpatient mortality
Length of stay
Physician board certification
Lipid Lowering Therapy at Discharge
LDL Cholesterol Assessment
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Myocardial Infarction Quality Measures

Length of stay for MI

The average length of stay (measured in days) provides general information about the efficiency of care delivery, and is therefore an important quality indicator. However, patients with a greater severity of illness may have a longer average length of stay.

According to the most recent national data from the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) Nationwide Inpatient Sample from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), average length of stay for heart attack in the US was 5.4 days.

In 2006, the average length of stay (ALOS) for heart attack patients at St. Mary’s Hospital Medical Center was 3.62 days, which is better than the national ALOS for heart attack in HCUP’s nationwide sample.

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