Meeting the ambition of measuring the quality of hospitals’ stroke care using routinely collected administrative data: a feasibility study

Objective To examine the potential for using routinely collected administrative data to compare the quality and safety of stroke care at a hospital level, including evaluating any bias due to variations in coding practice.

Design A retrospective cohort study of English hospitals’ performance against six process and outcome indicators covering the acute care pathway. We used logistic regression to adjust the outcome measures for case mix. Read more