A brief review of the Hospital Outpatient Quality Data Reporting Program (HOP QDRP) is presented highlighting the program's legislative history, outpatient imaging efficiency measures and program requirements. Specifically, HOP QDRP measures applicable to imaging practices are discussed. Resources are also provided for further information on the program's requirements and measures.

Answering surveys is usually voluntary, yet much of our knowledge depends on the willingness of households and institutions to answer. We explore the implications of voluntary reporting on knowledge about microfinance. We show systematic biases in microfinance institutions’ choices about which survey to respond to and which specific indicators to report. The analysis focuses on data for 2,072 m...

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...

In conclusion, the quality assurance and monitoring program is an integral and continuing part of study operations. A system must be devised and implemented by the coordinating center investigators, with the endorsement of the study leadership and support of the field site and resource center personnel. Proactive mechanisms for promoting high-quality data acquisition and reporting must be imple...

Reporting is one of the basic processes in all organizations. It provides information for planning and decision making and, on the other hand, information for analyzing the correctness of the decisions made at the beginning of the process. Reporting is based on the data that the operational information systems contain. Reports can be produced directly from these operational databases, but an op...

The compilation of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) patient data together with a graphic display of immunoglobulin patterns in a single CSF report has two main advantages: analytical and clinical; plausibility control of a complex set of data improves quality assessment and allows improved clinical specificity and sensitivity for recognition of disease-related “typical” data patterns. The widespread u...

BACKGROUND The Adverse Event Reporting System (AERS) is an FDA database providing rich information on voluntary reports of adverse drug events (ADEs). Normalizing data in the AERS would improve the mining capacity of the AERS for drug safety signal detection and promote semantic interoperability between the AERS and other data sources. In this study, we normalize the AERS and build a publicly a...

To the Editor: A recent perspective in this journal (1) pointed out problems with the present, county-referenced system for reporting spatial epidemiologic data. Problems identi-fi ed included coarse spatial resolution of county-referenced data and differences across the United States in size of counties, making data for the western part of the country coarser in resolution than data for the ea...