MassachusettsHome Health-Hospice Quality Measures Compared to Achievable Benchmarks
The NHQDR quality measures specific to Home Health-Hospice are compared to achievable benchmarks, which are derived from the top-performing States. Better performance of a State can mean higher or lower values of a measure, depending on the desired outcome. For example, low values are desirable for measures such as infant mortality, whereas high values are desirable for measures such as preventative screening. The categories of achievement have been standardized across the measure definitions so that:
Measure | Estimate | Benchmark | Distance to Benchmark |
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Home health care patients who had an emergency department visit and then hospitalized | 13.6 | 8.9 | 53.5% |
Home health care patients who had an emergency department visit without a hospitalization | 4.4 | 2.8 | 55.7% |