Analytic Briefs

You can view the analytic briefs by analysis type or by measure

Analysis Type	Condition/Procedure
Hospital Variation Index versus Post-Acute Care Payment Results by Hospital Characteristics Results by Proportion of African-American Patients Results by Proportion of Medicaid Patients Results by Social Risk Factors Three-Year Trends	Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)	Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG)	Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)	Heart Failure
	Mortality Readmission Payment Excess Days in Acute Care (EDAC)	Mortality Readmission	Mortality Readmission	Mortality Readmission Payment Excess Days in Acute Care (EDAC)
	Hip and/or Knee Arthroplasty	Hospital-Wide	Pneumonia	Stroke
	Complication Readmission Payment	Readmission	Mortality Readmission Payment	Mortality Readmission

Analytics Highlights

Comparing Agreement Between Hospital Measures
[PDF, 133.95 KB]
Do hospitals perform consistently on different outcome measures? Examine how consistently hospitals perform on pairs of outcome measures.
Comparing Disparities Between States
[PDF, 85.3 KB]
Chartbook can be used to characterize state-level disparities in care by identifying gaps in the quality of care within states based on...
Comparing Results by Hospital and Geographic Location
[PDF, 2.55 MB]
Which regions or states have the lowest mortality and readmission rates?
Customizing Comparisons Between Hospital Peer Groups
[PDF, 100.64 KB]
How do CMS outcome measure results compare between urban and rural, and safety-net and non-safety net hospitals?
Identifying Hospitals with Social Risk Factors
[PDF, 2.75 MB]
Which hospitals serve populations with social risk factors?
Visualizing National Rates Over Time
[PDF, 111.25 KB]
How can changes in national rates be displayed over time?

Figure Explanations
[PDF, 175.11 KB]
This document provides background information on line graphs, histograms, density plots and stacked bar charts (2015).

CMS Hospital Quality Chartbook 2010
[PDF, 1.6 MB]
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Quality Chartbook 2010
CMS Hospital Quality Chartbook 2011
[PDF, 1.71 MB]
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Quality Chartbook 2011
CMS Hospital Quality Chartbook 2012
[PDF, 1.84 MB]
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Quality Chartbook 2012
CMS Hospital Quality Chartbook 2013
[PDF, 6.39 MB]
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Quality Chartbook 2013
CMS Hospital Quality Chartbook 2014
[PDF, 2.91 MB]
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital Quality Chartbook 2014