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Information Presentation Features and Comprehensibility of Hospital Report Cards: Design Analysis and Online Survey Among Users [PDF]

Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2015
BackgroundImproving the transparency of information about the quality of health care providers is one way to improve health care quality. It is assumed that Internet information steers patients toward better-performing health care providers and will ...
Sander, Uwe, Emmert, Martin, Dickel, Jochen, Meszmer, Nina, Kolb, Benjamin   +4 more
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Hospital report cards for hospital-acquired pressure ulcers: how good are the grades? [PDF]

Ann Intern Med, 2013
Value-based purchasing programs use administrative data to compare hospitals by rates of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) for public reporting and financial penalties. However, validation of these data is lacking.To assess the validity of the administrative data used to generate HAPU rates by comparing the rates generated from these data with ...
Meddings JA, Reichert H, Hofer T, McMahon LF.   +3 more
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Do Report Cards Influence Hospital Choice? The Case of Kidney Transplantation [PDF]

Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2006
The national program to report hospital-level outcomes for transplantation has been in place since 1991, yet it has not been addressed in the existing literature on hospital report cards.
David H. Howard, Bruce Kaplan
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Accuracy of hospital report cards based on administrative data. [PDF]

Health Serv Res, 2006
Context. Many of the publicly available health quality report cards are based on administrative data. ICD‐9‐CM codes in administrative data are not date stamped to distinguish between medical conditions present at the time of hospital admission and complications, which occur after hospital admission.
Glance LG, Dick AW, Osler TM, Mukamel DB.   +3 more
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Do Australian health consumers understand and intend to use Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) when selecting a hospital?: A qualitative exploration of online hospital report cards

Health Literacy and Communication Open
Background This study explores Australian consumers’ perceptions, comprehension, and intended use of Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMs) from Hospital Report Cards in future hospital decision-making, with a focus on health literacy.Methods. Data
Madeline Schultz, Krista Verlis, Brooke Nickel, Kirsten McCaffery, Tessa Copp, Rebekah Laidsaar-Powell   +5 more
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Public Report Cards for In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest [PDF]

Circulation, 2015
Each year, there are ≈200 000 cardiac arrests in hospitalized patients in the United States1 and survival rates remain very poor. Article see p 1415 In this issue of Circulation , Kolte et al2 present new findings about regional variability in resuscitation rates and outcomes across the United States.
Raina M. Merchant
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Assessing Hospital Surgical Quality [PDF]

Annals of Surgery Open
Objective:. Develop a new hospital surgery report card for use in performance improvement. Background:. When evaluating quality, a surgical program is aided by benchmark comparisons with outcomes achieved at other hospitals.
Jeffrey H. Silber, MD, PhD, Paul R. Rosenbaum, PhD, Joseph G. Reiter, MS, Alexander S. Hill, BS, Lee A. Fleisher, MD, Omar I. Ramadan, MD, MSc, Rachel R. Kelz, MD, MSCE   +6 more
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Referring physicians' intention to use hospital report cards for hospital referral purposes in the presence or absence of patient-reported outcomes: a randomized trial. [PDF]

Eur J Health Econ, 2023
Emmert M, Schindler A, Heppe L, Sander U, Patzelt C, Lauerer M, Nagel E, Frömke C, Schöffski O, Drach C.   +9 more
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Competition and the impact of online hospital report cards

Journal of Health Economics, 2014
Information on the quality of healthcare gives providers an incentive to improve care, and this incentive should be stronger in more competitive markets. We examine this hypothesis by studying Pennsylvanian hospitals during the years 1995-2004 to see whether those hospitals located in more competitive markets increased the quality of the care provided ...
Shin-Yi, Chou, Mary E, Deily, Suhui, Li, Yi, Lu   +3 more
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Effect of Provider Volume on the Accuracy of Hospital Report Cards [PDF]

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2014
Background— Hospital report cards, in which outcomes after the provision of medical or surgical care are compared across healthcare providers, are being published with increasing frequency. However, the accuracy of such comparisons is controversial, especially when case volumes are small.
Peter C, Austin, Mathew J, Reeves
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