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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
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Hospital Report Cards for Hospital-Acquired Pressure Ulcers: How Good Are the Grades? [PDF]

Annals of Internal Medicine, 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 ...
Jennifer A, Meddings, Heidi, Reichert, Tim, Hofer, Laurence F, McMahon   +3 more
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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]

The European Journal of Health Economics, 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, Martin, Schindler, Anja, Heppe, Laura, Sander, Uwe, Patzelt, Christiane, Lauerer, Michael, Nagel, Eckhard, Frömke, Cornelia, Schöffski, Oliver, Drach, Cordula   +9 more
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Considering Potential Benefits and Consequences of Hospital Report Cards: What Are the Next Steps? [PDF]

Health Services Research, 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 ...
Jesse D, Schold, Lauren Hersch, Nicholas
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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
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Barriers for vaccination of healthcare workers

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2021
Outbreaks of vaccine preventable diseases (VPDs) in hospital settings remain a challenge even in countries with established (childhood-) vaccination programs.
Anna Korsgaard Eltvedt, Anja Poulsen, Thilde Nordmann Winther, Marie-Louise Von Linstow   +3 more
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Ontario’s stroke report cards: Cross-continuum data linkage allows evaluation of system of care

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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Improving the quality of clinical coding and payments through student doctor–coder collaboration in a tertiary haematology department

BMJ Open Quality, 2020
Hospitals within the UK are paid for services provided by ‘Payment-by-Results’. In a system that rewards productivity, effective collaboration between coders and clinicians is crucial. However, clinical coding is frequently error prone and has been shown
Suha Abdulla, Natalie Simon, Kelvin Woodhams, Carla Hayman, Mohamed Oumar, Lucy Rose Howroyd, Gulshan Cindy Sethi   +6 more
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As easy as ABC: evaluation of safe sleep initiative on safe sleep compliance in a freestanding pediatric hospital

Injury Epidemiology, 2019
Background The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends the ABCs of safe infant sleep (alone, back, clear crib) to combat the increasing rates of Sudden Unexplained Infant Death (SUID).
Traci Leong, Manon Billaud, Maneesha Agarwal, Terri Miller, Terri McFadden, Jonathan Johnson, Sarah Gard Lazarus   +6 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.
Peter C, Austin, Mathew J, Reeves
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