Hospital Mortality Rates and Implications for Palliative Care Programs
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
1:30-2:30 PM Eastern
Featured Speaker
J. Brian Cassel, PhD
Senior Analyst, Oncology Business Unit
Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
VCU School of Medicine/Massey Cancer Center
Palliative Care Leadership Centers™
Richmond, VA
About the Presentation
Do you have a thorough understanding of how hospitals mortality rates are computed? Medicare, US News & World Report, UHC, HealthGrades and other entities provide the general public with analyses of your hospital's mortality rates. But each entity defines and analyzes risk-adjusted mortality in a different way. Some exclude palliative care and hospice cases, and some do not.
Examine how hospital mortality reporting impacts palliative care programs and vice versa. Palliative care program leaders and hospital administrators must have a thorough understanding of hospital mortality rate analyses and the implications for the palliative care field.
Join Us and Learn
- How Medicare, US News & World Report and others compute mortality rates
- How hospice and palliative care are handled in the computation of hospital mortality
- How hospital palliative care programs impact hospital mortality data
Who Should Attend?
Palliative care leaders and staff from both new and established programs; hospital administrators
Call Details
- $89 per phone line or $99 for one phone line plus the audio conference CD-ROM (contains MP3 audio file and presentation PDF file)
- Payment is online by credit card only
- PowerPoint presentations accompany each audio conference
- You will have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A session with the presenter
- Continue the discussion following the audio conference and post your questions and comments on CAPCconnect™ Forum in the “Data Collection and Measurement” topic!
- We encourage you to invite your colleagues to listen with you
Any questions? Contact Margaret Schutz at (212) 201-2671 or margaret.schutz@mssm.edu
