From Public to Social Reporting of Hospital Quality

State-sponsored public reporting of hospital quality.

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Hospital Response to Public Reporting of Quality Indicators

Senior hospital executives responding to a 2005 national telephone survey conducted for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) report that Hospital Compare and other public reports on hospital quality measures have helped to focus hospital leadership attention on quality matters. They also report increased investment in quality improvement (QI) projects and in people and systems to ...

Public reporting and pay for performance in hospital quality improvement.

BACKGROUND Public reporting and pay for performance are intended to accelerate improvements in hospital care, yet little is known about the benefits of these methods of providing incentives for improving care. METHODS We measured changes in adherence to 10 individual and 4 composite measures of quality over a period of 2 years at 613 hospitals that voluntarily reported information about the q...

Public reporting of hospital-acquired infections.

Public Reporting of Quality Data for Stroke

Background and Purpose—Public reporting of quality data is becoming more common and increasingly used to improve choices of patients, providers, and payers. We reviewed the scope and content of stroke data being reported to the public and how well it captures the quality of stroke care. Methods—We performed a cross-sectional survey of all report cards within the Agency for Healthcare Research a...