The non-profit group, Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project, has released 10 criteria for meaningful and usable measures of healthcare provider performance. 1. Make consumer and purchaser needs a ...
The American Hospital Association has released a report finding that hospital and health system performance on key patient safety and quality measures was better in the first quarter of 2024 than it ...
Accredited hospitals that offer advanced services, are major teaching institutions and have better performance and outcome measures are penalized more frequently than other providers for ...
Hospitals and healthcare providers in rural areas are faced with a number of challenges when it comes to measuring quality performance and optimizing quality improvement efforts, according to a report ...
Los Angeles, CA - Current heart-failure performance measures, with the exception of the prescription of an ACE inhibitor or angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) at discharge, have little relationship to ...
The national Baldrige program has supported performance excellence within healthcare for over twenty years, yet it has seen recent declines in the number of applications despite Baldrige award ...
December 14, 2006 (Philadelphia, PA) - Performance measures used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to rate the quality of cardiovascular care at hospitals probably are not ...
As health-care costs skyrocket, consumers are urged to shop as carefully for medical care as they do for new homes or cars to obtain the best service and quality. A new study suggests, however, that ...