Measuring Quality for Public Reporting of Health Provider Quality: Making It Meaningful to PatientsPublic quality reports of hospitals, health plans, and physicians are being used to promote efficiency and quality in the health care system. Shrinkage estimators have been proposed as superior measures ...
Quality is a key concern for patients and policymakers in health care markets. It is often argued that encouraging competition amongst health care providers will improve quality, especially when prices are fixed as higher quality is then the only way in which hospitals can attract more patients.1...
Overall, 43.40% of all hospitals were labeled equally as low, middle, or top performers on two report cards (hip replacement: 43.2%; knee replacement: 42.8%; percutaneous coronary intervention: 44.3%). In contrast, 8.5% of all hospitals were rated a top performer on one report card and a...
Limitations include possible insufficient capture of billing quality by the proposed billing quality measures, potential bias in how respondents interpreted the 3 survey questions, and self-reporting bias among hospitals that responded, which could affect generalizability of findings because they are no...
We further excluded 518 838 hospitalizations (3.8%) that took place at non-MedPAR reporting hospitals, for a final sample of 12 190 270 hospitalizations among 7 130 610 Medicare enrollees. We included all Medicare enrollees (both those aged <65 years and those aged ≥65 years) ...
Bardach NS, Hibbard HJ, Dudley RA, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Users of public reports of hospital quality: who, what, why, and how? an aggregate analysis of 16 online public reporting Web sites and users’ and experts’ suggestions for improvement . Rockville, MD: Agency ...
Hospital-wide mortality is problematic as a quality metric for public reporting, although hospitals may elect to use such measures for other purposes. Potential alternative approaches include multidimensional composite metrics or mortality measurement limited to selected conditions and procedures for which ...
Rebecca Powell, Project Director, U.S. News Best Hospitals and Best Children's Hospitals, RTI International Min Hee Seo,Senior Health Data Scientist at U.S. News Sponsorships Event sponsors receive significant exposure through custom programming and integration opportunities, as wel...
(ORs ranged from 0.56 to 0.75) and of reporting poor or fair quality patient care (ORs ranged from 0.54 to 0.74), and patients in such hospitals were more likely to rate their hospital highly, to be satisfied with nursing communications, and to recommend their hospitals (significant ORs ...
Results Of 3619 hospitals reporting HQA data, 1461 (40.4%) had hospitalists. Hospitals with hospitalists tended to be large, private, not-for-profit, teaching institutions located in the southern United States. The mean unadjusted composite scores were higher for hospitals with hospitalists vs ...