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Optimal Bayesian probability levels for hospital report cards
Health Services and Outcomes Research Methodology, 2007There is a growing trend towards the production of “hospital report-cards” in which hospitals with higher than acceptable mortality rates are identified. Several commentators have advocated for the use of Bayesian hierarchical models in provider profiling.
Peter Austin, Austin Peter C
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Competition and the impact of online hospital report cards
Journal of Health Economics, 2014Information 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
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The elicitation of patient and physician preferences for calculating consumer-based composite measures on hospital report cards: results of two discrete choice experiments [PDF]
European Journal of Health Economics, 2023 Purpose The calculation of aggregated composite measures is a widely used strategy to reduce the amount of data on hospital report cards. Therefore, this study aims to elicit and compare preferences of both patients as well as referring physicians ...
Martin Emmert +2 more
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Developing a Hospital Report Card to Demonstrate Value in Healthcare
Journal For Healthcare Quality, 1995The 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, 2004Hospital 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
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Health Policy, 2022
So far, the adoption of hospital report cards (HRCs) falls short of expectations. One promising strategy is to modify the content of HRCs by presenting patient-reported outcomes (PROs).To identify the key determinants influencing patients to use HRCs for hospital decision making and determine the effect of presenting PROs on HRCs on their use intention.
Martin, Emmert +11 more
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So far, the adoption of hospital report cards (HRCs) falls short of expectations. One promising strategy is to modify the content of HRCs by presenting patient-reported outcomes (PROs).To identify the key determinants influencing patients to use HRCs for hospital decision making and determine the effect of presenting PROs on HRCs on their use intention.
Martin, Emmert +11 more
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Performance of the '100 top hospitals': what does the report card report?
Health affairs (Project Hope), 1999We examine whether Medicare patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) admitted to one of HCIA-Mercer's "100 top hospitals" received better care or had better outcomes than patients treated in other hospitals. Among four hospital peer groups, the top 100 hospitals had similar thirty-day mortality and use of aspirin, beta-blockers, and reperfusion ...
J, Chen +4 more
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[Text Comprehensibility of Hospital Report Cards].
Gesundheitswesen (Bundesverband der Arzte des Offentlichen Gesundheitsdienstes (Germany)), 2017Objectives: Recently, the number of hospital report cards that compare quality of hospitals and present information from German quality reports has greatly increased. Objectives of this study were to a) identify suitable methods for measuring the readability and comprehensibility of hospital report cards, b) to obtain reliable information on the ...
U, Sander +3 more
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Developing an Outcomes Report Card for Hospitals: A Case Study and Implementation Guidelines
Journal of Healthcare Management, 1998Except for a few state mandates and dominant business coalitions in selected markets, the provider report card initiative is a voluntary response to a perceived public desire for performance data on healthcare providers. This study uses a detailed investigation of a single "typical" case to collect information about one hospital's decision processes ...
D J, Slovensky +2 more
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The Joint Commission Journal on Quality Improvement, 2001
Increasing competition in health care markets and ongoing pressures to contain costs raise concerns about possible deterioration in the quality of medical care. Publicly disseminated quality report cards are designed to inform consumers' choice of providers and health plans, thus counteracting incentives to provide low-quality care and improving the ...
D B, Mukamel, A I, Mushlin
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Increasing competition in health care markets and ongoing pressures to contain costs raise concerns about possible deterioration in the quality of medical care. Publicly disseminated quality report cards are designed to inform consumers' choice of providers and health plans, thus counteracting incentives to provide low-quality care and improving the ...
D B, Mukamel, A I, Mushlin
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