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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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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.
Mathew Reeves, Peter Austin
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Ontario’s stroke report cards: Cross-continuum data linkage allows evaluation of system of care [PDF]

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2018
Introduction Report cards or scorecards typically reflect one particular sector along the care continuum; however, stroke patients typically require acute care, inpatient rehabilitation and community care highlighting the need to link data sources to ...
Ruth Hall, Ferhana Khan, Jen Levi, Huiting Ma, Cally Martin, Cheryl Moher, Linda Kelloway, Elizabeth Linkewich, Mark Bayley   +8 more
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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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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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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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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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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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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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