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Quantification of Urinary NGAL Using Volumetric Dried Urine Sampling. [PDF]

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Sütterlin S   +6 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Physical Activity Indicators Among Children and Adolescents in Lebanon, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates: Comparative Synthesis of Active Healthy Kids Report Card Data From 1998 to 2022. [PDF]

open access: yesJMIR Public Health Surveill
Baghestani A   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Patients’ Awareness, Usage and Impact of Hospital Report Cards in the US

Patient, 2017
Little knowledge is available about the importance of hospital report cards in the US from the patients' perspective. It also remains unknown whether specific report cards with a stronger emphasis on clinical measures have a greater impact on hospital choice than general report cards that focus on online-derived ratings.The aim of this study was to ...
Martin Emmert, Mark Schlesinger
exaly   +3 more sources

Optimal Statistical Decisions for Hospital Report Cards

Medical Decision Making, 2005
Purpose. Hospital report cards provide information designed to help patients and providers to make decisions. The purpose of this study was to place the design of hospital report cards into a decision-theoretic framework. The authors’ objectives were 2-fold: 1st, to determine what the choice of significance level implies about the relative value of the
Peter C, Austin, Geoffrey M, Anderson
openaire   +2 more sources

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   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Hospital Report Cards: Intent, Impact, and Illusion

American Journal of Medical Quality, 2004
The public is currently being bombarded with a growing number of hospital report cards revealing hospital-specific outcome data. The original intent of these report cards was to provide information to the public to enable them to make a more educated choice in selecting health care services and to stimulate provider activities to improve outcomes of ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Developing a Hospital Report Card to Demonstrate Value in Healthcare

Journal For Healthcare Quality, 1995
The Sisters of Charity Health Care Systems, Inc., (SCHCS) developed methods to collect more than 290 data elements from its 15 hospitals to measure community benefit, illness prevention, patient satisfaction, severity of illness, appropriateness, traditional quality measures, outcome measures, maternal/child services, psychiatric services, efficiency ...
R N, Alsever, T, Ritchey, N P, Lima
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Impact of the choice of benchmark on the conclusions of hospital report cards

American Heart Journal, 2004
Hospital report cards for outcomes following acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are being produced with increasing frequency. Implicit in the statistical methods used is the fact that hospitals are being compared with an average hospital. Prior research has demonstrated that institutional characteristics such as a high annual volume of AMI patients and ...
Peter C, Austin   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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