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• Across all orthopedic procedures in which complications were studied, there was a 79.69% lower chance of experiencing one or more inhospital complications in a 5-star rated hospital compared to a 1-star rated hospital.
• Across all orthopedic procedures studied, there was a 61.22% lower chance of experiencing one or more inhospital complications in a 5-star rated hospital compared to the U.S. hospital average.
• If all hospitals performed at the level of a 5-star rated hospital, 110,687 orthopedic inhospital complications may have been avoided among Medicare patients over the three years studied.
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• Joint Commission stroke-certified hospitals were almost twice as likely to attain a HealthGrades’ 5-star rating in stroke (30.1% of certified hospitals were 5-star versus 15.7% of non-certified hospitals), and fewer of the stroke-certified hospitals fell into HealthGrades’ 1-star category (12.3% versus 19.6%).
• Joint Commission stroke-certified hospitals have an 8.06% lower risk-adjusted mortality rate compared to hospitals that were not stroke-certified.
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