• J Eval Clin Pract · Oct 2024

    Early effect of a financial incentive for surgeries within 48 h after hip fracture on the number of expedited hip fracture surgeries, in-hospital mortality, perioperative morbidity, length of stay and inpatient medical expenses.

    • Kenta Minato, Susumu Kunisawa, and Yuichi Imanaka.
    • Department of Healthcare Economics and Quality Management, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan.
    • J Eval Clin Pract. 2024 Oct 16.

    ObjectiveTo examine the early effects of the financial incentive (FI) implemented in April 2022 in Japan for surgeries within 48 h after hip fracture (HF) in patients aged 75 and older on expedited HF surgery (EHFS), in-hospital mortality, perioperative morbidity, length of stay (LOS) and inpatient medical expenses (IMEs).Study Setting And DesignWe conducted a quasi-experimental study and constructed segmented regression models for controlled interrupted time-series analyses, assuming a Poisson distribution, to evaluate the slope changes (SCs) in the outcomes of interest before and after the introduction of the FI.Data Sources And Analytic SampleWe used Diagnosis Procedure Combination data from the Quality Indicator/Improvement Project database between 1 April 2018 and 31 March 2023. Patients aged 50 years or older who were hospitalized with a diagnosis of HF and underwent surgery for HF were included.Principal FindingsA total of 82,163 patients from 183 hospitals were included in the analyses. In the age group of 75 years and older, increasing trends in the number of EHFSs were observed even before the introduction of the FI, while before and after the introduction of the FI, none of the SCs in the monthly number of EHFSs within 2 days, within 1 day, and on the day of admission were statistically significant (incident rate ratio: 1.0043, 95% confidence interval [CI]: [0.9977-1.0111], 1.0068 [0.9987-1.0149], 1.0073 [0.9930-1.0219]). Nor were any of the SCs in in-hospital deaths, perioperative complications, LOS, and IMEs statistically significant. Additionally, there were no statistical differences in the SCs for any of the outcomes between the two age groups.ConclusionThis study suggested that there was no significant, short-term effect of the FI for surgeries within 48 h after HF on any of the outcomes of interest.© 2024 The Author(s). Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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