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Explore hospital quality data for Atlanta area hospitals.

Hospital Checkup

Explore hospital quality data for Atlanta area hospitals.

• Published: by Sept. 15!
• Lives here: http://hospitals.myajc.com/
• Hosted here:
• Data covers period through:
  • Infections: 3/31/2015
  • Complications: 3/31/2014
  • Readmissions: 6/30/2014
  • Perinatal early births: 4/1/14 - 3/31/15

Dependencies

• Node.js
• Grunt CLI
• Bower
• Sql-bakery

##Plugins

• underscore
• backbone
• backbone.marionette
• backbone.select for keeping the nav selections updated
• backbone.localstorage to utilize session storage
• font-awesome to loading spinner

##Helpful links

• Main hospital compare site
• Hospital Compare measure definitions
• Hospital Compare data set homepage
• Complications data set
• Complications API docs
• Readmissions and Deaths data set
• Readmissions and Deaths API docs
• Data updates
• Hospital acquired infections hospitals data set
• Hospital acquired infections national data set
• Hospital acquired infections state data set

Notes

• Rate = Ratio
• Range (popup) is the confidence interval

##Improvements on original hospital quality app

• Active menu item is highlighted
• filters have routes so you can bookmark a particular infection view
• hospitals have routes too
• nav sub-app to handle navigation and routes properly
• infections have standardized attributes so you don't need to reset them to a hacky default
• dropdown menu accurately reflects selected filter on refresh/navigate
• state average no longer hard-coded into the view
• Comma formatted patient days
• selected hospital stays highlighted if it re-enters after exiting due to filters
• Mobile hospital table much better looking!
• Display hospital address on all sections that show hospital detail view (consistency)
• Perinatal axis labels formatting (currency, %, SI-prefixed)
• Bars reflecting percentages are on a scale of 100

Todo

• Use the Hospital Compare API to find the state and national averages
• Sources for perinatal - "public reports" is probably not sufficient
• "Percent of births performed by C-Section"/"Rate of early elective deliveries" - Can we call rate percent?
• Spell out infection names in infection bottom text
• Figure out what's wrong with processhtml grunt task and add it back in
• fix filter URLs so you can provide multiple filter parameters (i.e. hospital and infection)
• If someone clicks on already active nav item it shouldn't reload the layout
• What if local storage is disabled?
• Option to keep hospitals in same order so you can compare how they rate across categories
• Marionette.TemplateCache for faster rendering using

##How to update

• open the "hospital_compare" table on the interanet data server (add new data if necessary)

• To update:

  • upload new data to the database (Carrie or John usually does this)
  • make sure all views/tables specified in config/sql.json (should be "hospital_totals_web", "HAI_transposed", "hip_knee", "perinatal", "ER_waits") are pointing to the updated dataset (parent table for hospital_totals_web definitely needs to be changed to reflect new date string, year string needs to be change in perinatal.sql) and queries referencing dates/years have been updated
  • run grunt sql_bakery
  • run py/organizeJSON.py to create the restructured JSON files

• Perinatal comes from AHQ database as well as hospital_compare. State level data is in AHQ and needs to be averaged manually (perinatal_state_avgs_web is set up to do this, remember to change the year in the query if necessary).