The researchers focused on outcomes for more than 1 million patients who underwent percutaneous coronary interventions from 2004-2007 in 471 non-profit hospitals, 131 major teaching hospitals, 79 for-profit hospitals and 13 physician-owned specialty hospitals.
In both risk-adjusted and unadjusted analyses, researchers found patients who underwent PCI at physician-owned hospitals experienced lower rates of all adverse outcomes, including in-hospital mortality, compared to the other three hospital groups. The researchers suggested specialty hospitals may have “expertise in narrow procedural areas” that could be adopted at other types of hospitals.
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