Healthcare analytics

Surgical Complications Benchmarking

Multi-page Streamlit dashboard benchmarking real CMS hospital surgical outcomes. Includes a calibrated synthetic patient-level layer for risk adjustment and predictive modeling.

  • Streamlit
  • CMS Data
  • Risk Adjustment
  • Python

Role

Data sourcing, statistical methodology, dashboard build

Timeframe

2025

The problem

Raw CMS complication rates make hospitals look better or worse than they are, because case mix differs wildly between facilities.

Approach

  1. 01

    Ingested and cleaned public CMS hospital outcome files, standardizing measures across reporting periods.

  2. 02

    Built a calibrated synthetic patient-level layer to enable risk adjustment where public data is aggregate only.

  3. 03

    Implemented risk-adjusted comparisons with confidence intervals so differences are read against uncertainty.

  4. 04

    Shipped a multi-page Streamlit app for hospital, measure, and peer-group exploration.

Outcome

  • Fair peer comparisons that separate genuine performance gaps from case-mix noise.

  • An interactive benchmarking tool that non-technical reviewers can navigate on their own.

  • A documented method for extending aggregate public data to patient-level modeling.