Reductions in mortality associated with intensive public reporting of hospital outcomes

American Journal of Medical Quality

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 279-286

  Hollenbeak, Christopher S ^a,b   Gorton, Christopher P ^c,d   Tabak, Ying P ^e   Jones, Jayne L ^g   Milstein, Arnold ^f   Johannes, Richard S ^e  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council (PHC4)

^c APS Healthcare Inc   (United States)

^d BRISTOL MYERS SQUIBB   (United States)

^e CARDINAL HEALTH   (United States)

^f Pacific Business Group on Health   (United States)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Databases; Hospital mortality; Outcome assessment; Public reporting

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; HEART FAILURE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; SEPSIS; STATISTICS; STROKE; UNITED STATES;

DATABASES, FACTUAL; DISCLOSURE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PENNSYLVANIA; PNEUMONIA; SEPSIS; STROKE;

EID: 46949091241     PISSN: 10628606     EISSN: 1555824X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1062860608318451     Document Type: Article

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