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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: 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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Accuracy of Hospital Report Cards Based on Administrative Data [PDF]

Health Services Research, 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.
Laurent G, Glance, Andrew W, Dick, Turner M, Osler, Dana B, Mukamel   +3 more
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Bayes rules for optimally using Bayesian hierarchical regression models in provider profiling to identify high-mortality hospitals

BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2008
Background There is a growing trend towards the production of "hospital report-cards" in which hospitals with higher than acceptable mortality rates are identified.
Austin Peter C
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Breast cancer patients’ visual attention to information in hospital report cards: An eye-tracking study on differences between younger and older female patients

Health Informatics Journal, 2023
To (1) explore how women visually attend to a hospital report card (HRC), (2) explore whether visual attention of younger and older women (patients and non-patients) differs. Eye-tracking study with a short survey.
Nida Gizem Yılmaz, Danielle RM Timmermans, Julia CM Van Weert, Olga C Damman   +3 more
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A Dedicated Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Unit during a Respiratory Pandemic: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Part II: Clinical Management

Membranes, 2021
(1) Background: COVID-19 acute respiratory distress syndrome (CARDS) has several distinctions from traditional acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS); however, patients with refractory respiratory failure may still benefit from veno-venous ...
Aakash Shah, Sagar Dave, Samuel Galvagno, Kristen George, Ashley R. Menne, Daniel J. Haase, Brian McCormick, Raymond Rector, Siamak Dahi, Ronson J. Madathil, Kristopher B. Deatrick, Mehrdad Ghoreishi, James S. Gammie, David J. Kaczorowski, Thomas M. Scalea, Jay Menaker, Daniel Herr, Ali Tabatabai, Eric Krause   +18 more
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Continuing professional development needs in pain management for Canadian health care professionals: A cross sectional survey

Canadian Journal of Pain, 2023
Background Continuing professional development is an important means of improving access to effective patient care. Although pain content has increased significantly in prelicensure programs, little is known about how postlicensure health professionals ...
Craig M. Dale, Iacopo Cioffi, Christine B. Novak, Franklin Gorospe, Laura Murphy, Deepika Chugh, Judy Watt-Watson, Bonnie Stevens   +7 more
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CLINICAL OUTCOMES OF SURGERY FOR ADVANCED STAGE RETINOPATHY OF PREMATURITY: A CASE REPORT

IJRETINA (International Journal of Retina), 2023
Introduction: Advanced stages of Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) could lead to childhood blindness and retinal surgery is needed as the main treatment.
Dian Estu Yulia, Marissa Jayawinata, Mario Marbungaran Hutapea   +2 more
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