While mortality rates for certain conditions at non-critical access hospitals decreased from 2002 to 2010, the rates at critical access hospitals increased, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Researchers analyzed data on Medicare beneficiaries admitted to U.S. acute-care hospitals with acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure and pneumonia from 2002 to 2010. In 2002, the composite 30-day mortality rates for all three conditions were comparable between CAHs and non-CAHs, at 12.8 percent and 13 percent, respectively.
However, between 2002 and 2010, mortality rates at CAHs increased 0.1 percent annually but decreased 0.2 percent annually in non-CAHs. By 2010, CAHs' mortality rates were at 13.3 percent compared with 11.4 percent at non-CAHs. Results for each condition were similar when examined separately, according to the study.
The authors suggest that CAHs may need more resources to lower mortality rates.
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Researchers analyzed data on Medicare beneficiaries admitted to U.S. acute-care hospitals with acute myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure and pneumonia from 2002 to 2010. In 2002, the composite 30-day mortality rates for all three conditions were comparable between CAHs and non-CAHs, at 12.8 percent and 13 percent, respectively.
However, between 2002 and 2010, mortality rates at CAHs increased 0.1 percent annually but decreased 0.2 percent annually in non-CAHs. By 2010, CAHs' mortality rates were at 13.3 percent compared with 11.4 percent at non-CAHs. Results for each condition were similar when examined separately, according to the study.
The authors suggest that CAHs may need more resources to lower mortality rates.
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