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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
Abstract Purpose This study aims to determine the intention to use hospital report cards (HRCs) for hospital referral purposes in the presence or absence of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) as well as to explore the relevance of publicly available hospital performance information from the perspective of referring ...
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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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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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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Information Presentation Features and Comprehensibility of Hospital Report Cards: Design Analysis and Online Survey Among Users

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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Considering potential benefits and consequences of hospital report cards: what are the next steps? [PDF]

Health Serv Res, 2015
Over the past decade, there has been significant growth in the prevalence and ramifications of health care provider report cards. These provider performance evaluations are believed to increase transparency for patients and caregivers, enable evaluation of best practices, enhance quality assurance, and improve quality of care if report cards motivate ...
Schold JD, Nicholas LH.
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The informatics pathway for hospital infection quality control monitoring [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
ObjectiveTo analyze the results and current status of hospital infection monitoring and quality control work at a tertiary specialized cancer hospital, providing references for further improvement of HAI monitoring quality.MethodsCombined information ...
Hui Wang, Qin Huang, Qingqing Tian, Weiwei Yang, Anran Liu, Jiayang Tang, Hailin Zhang, Chunlin Wu   +7 more
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Pay-it-forward and social network distribution to increase doxycycline post-exposure prophylaxis uptake among men who have sex with men and transgender women in China: study protocol for a three-arm randomised controlled trial [PDF]

BMJ Open
Introduction Doxycycline postexposure prophylaxis (doxy-PEP) can prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TGW).
Weiming Tang, Cheng Wang, Joseph D Tucker, Thomas Fitzpatrick, Peizhen Zhao, Shujie Huang, Peng Liang, Wenqian Xu, Ann Marie Weideman, Kimberly Enders   +9 more
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Hospital report cards: Quality competition and patient selection [PDF]

Journal of Health Economics, 2021
Hospital 'report cards' policies involve governments publishing information about hospital quality. Such policies often aim to improve hospital quality by stimulating competition between hospitals. Previous empirical literature lacks a comprehensive theoretical framework for analysing the effects of report cards.
Chen, Yijuan, Sivey, Peter
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The failure of four bootstrap procedures for estimating confidence intervals for predicted-to-expected ratios for hospital profiling

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2022
Background Healthcare provider profiling involves the comparison of outcomes between patients cared for by different healthcare providers. An important component of provider profiling is risk-adjustment so that providers that care for sicker patients are
Peter C. Austin
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Testing the effects on information use by older versus younger women of modality and narration style in a hospital report card

Health Expectations, 2022
Background Hospital report cards (HRCs) are usually presented in a textual and factual format, likely hampering information processing. Objective This study aimed to investigate the effects of audiovisual and narrative information in HRCs on user ...
Nida Gizem Yılmaz, Danielle R. M. Timmermans, Johanneke Portielje, Julia C. M. Van Weert, Olga C. Damman   +4 more
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