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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.
Yijuan Chen, Peter Sivey
exaly   +6 more sources

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
doaj   +5 more sources

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
doaj   +7 more sources

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
europepmc   +14 more sources

Report cards and outcome measurements to improve the safety of surgical care (North America): an updated systematic review from Making Healthcare Safer IV [PDF]

BMJ Open
Objectives In the USA, an estimated 40–50 million operations are performed annually, with high rates of adverse events. Since the 1980s, report cards have been used for outcome measures and to improve safety of surgical care. As part of Making Healthcare
Aneesa Motala, P G Shekelle, Emily Lawson, Mariah B Blegen, Tess Huy, Haley Tupper, Alykhan Premji, Mark Girgis, M Maggard-Gibbons   +8 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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
europepmc   +4 more sources

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.
europepmc   +4 more sources

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
doaj   +2 more sources

The impact of faster antimicrobial susceptibility testing report and dual antimicrobial susceptibility testing cards on the antibiotic therapy and economics of hospitalized bloodstream infection patients [PDF]

BMC Microbiology
Background Overuse of carbapenems and other broad-spectrum antibiotics increases both costs and the risk of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). This study assessed whether optimizing antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) reports could improve clinical ...
Jinxi Yue, Yangliu Guo, Shuangshuang Yang, Yijun Xia, Lulu Gong, Jing Liu, Yao Jiang, Meng Zhang, Ning Xie, Tao Liao   +9 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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
europepmc   +4 more sources