MassachusettsState Snapshot for Hospital

In this comparison, the NHQDR measures for Massachusetts for the most recent data year and the baseline year are compared to the average of all States.

Historically, the State Snapshots have included State-specific estimates for selected AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs) based on Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) data. The 2018 QDR does not include State-specific QI estimates based on 2016 HCUP data because the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification/Procedure Coding System version of the QI software used did not include risk adjustment. State-specific QIs will be reported in future QDRs when the estimates can be risk adjusted.

Measures Better Than Average in The Recent Year

Measure	Recent Year	Recent Rate	Recent Performance	Baseline Year	Baseline Rate	Baseline Performance
Adult hospital patients who did not receive good communication about discharge information	2017	9.4	Better than Average	2009	12.2	Better than Average
Adult hospital patients who strongly disagree or disagree that staff took their preferences and those of their family and caregiver into account when deciding what the patients discharge health care would be	2017	5.1	Better than Average	2014	5.0	Better than Average
Hospital patients who received influenza vaccination	2016	95.7	Better than Average	2012	88.2	Better than Average
Women under age 70 treated for breast cancer with breast-conserving surgery who received radiation therapy to the breast within 1 year of diagnosis	2015	94.4	Better than Average	2005	92.9	Better than Average
Patients with colon cancer who received surgical resection of colon cancer that included at least 12 lymph nodes pathologically examined	2015	94.8	Better than Average	2005	62.8	Better than Average

Measures That Are Average in The Recent Year

Measure	Recent Year	Recent Rate	Recent Performance	Baseline Year	Baseline Rate	Baseline Performance
Stroke patients prescribed statin medication at hospital discharge	2015	97.5	Average	2013	95.4	Better than Average

Measures Worse Than Average in The Recent Year

Measure	Recent Year	Recent Rate	Recent Performance	Baseline Year	Baseline Rate	Baseline Performance
Adult hospital patients who sometimes or never had good communication about medications they received in the hospital	2017	10.4	Worse than Average	2009	12.0	Better than Average
Home health care patients whose surgical wound was improved	2016	92.1	Worse than Average	2013	91.7	Worse than Average
Home health care patients who had an emergency department visit and then hospitalized	2016	22.5	Worse than Average	2013	19.7	Worse than Average
Women with clinical Stage I-IIb breast cancer who received axillary node dissection or sentinel lymph node biopsy (SLNB) at the time of surgery (lumpectomy or mastectomy)	2015	89.5	Worse than Average	2005	82.5	Worse than Average
Stroke patients who received venous thromboembolism (VTE) prophylaxis	2015	96.8	Worse than Average	2013	94.4	Average
Stroke patients with educational material addressing activation of emergency medical system, follow-up after discharge, educations prescribed at discharge, risk factors for stroke, warning signs and symptoms of stroke	2015	92.2	Worse than Average	2013	83.6	Worse than Average
Hospital patients who received pneumococcal immunization	2015	82.4	Worse than Average	2012	88.6	Worse than Average