Hospital ComparePurpose To determine the association between obstetric outcomes and publicly reported hospital data on patient satisfaction, surgical quality measures, and medical outcomes. Materials and Methods Hospitals in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample in 2011 were linked to Hospital Compare, a source ...
Whether performance on these conditions accurately predicts the quality of broader hospital care is unknown. Objective To determine whether mortality rates for publicly reported medical conditions are correlated with hospitals’ overall performance. Methods Using national Medicare data, we compared hospital ...
A mean quality score and a mean patient experience score will be created for each practice within a 25-mile radius of the hospital that has data reported on the MHQP website for at least three relevant measures. The primary outcomes will be a) the mean MHQP clinical quality and b) mean...
Using electronic health records (EHR) to automate publicly reported quality measures is receiving increasing attention and is one of the promises of EHR implementation. Kaiser Permanente has fully or partly automated six of 13 the joint commission measure sets. We describe our experience with automatio...
The k-space data were anonymized via conversion to the raw data format. We only included imaging parameters in the raw data while removing all items related to subject identity, e.g., subject name, personal ID, hospital ID, data of exam and date of birth. Those images with poor quality ...
Possible findings in each of the different categories are reported as string without a regular syntax. Overall, these reports represent a very rich source of additional information. The most basic use of these fields is to filter for data of a particularly high quality by excluding all records ...
Chest radiographs were sourced from the hospital picture archiving and communication system (PACS) in Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) format. DICOM is a common format which facilitates interoperability between medical imaging devices. The DICOM format contains meta-data associated wi...
Fig. 1. Evolution of quality of life during the RCT PU: pressure ulcer; QoL: quality of life; Last day of the study = when patient leaves the hospital or day 14. Safety. The safety analysis showed that there are no specific adverse events related to the application of silicone adhesive ...
NHS Foundation Trust; Ellissa Baskind, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust; Tonia Campbell, Patient Advocacy; Frances Darby, Leeds Beckett University; Katharina Vogt, Leeds Beckett University; Jonathan Skull, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Daniel Stark, Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust...
During the fight against COVID-19, the SOEs actively fulfilled their corporate social responsibility, which included the construction of the Huoshenshan hospital and other emergency projects, and the guaranteeing of the supply of emergency materials and services, such as coal, electricity, oil and ...