October 11, 2016

Hospital consumer ranking systems based on faulty data

By: Judy Mathias
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Editor's Note

More transparency and validation are needed for consumer-based benchmarking methods, this study finds.

Researchers evaluated differences between Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services measured rates of safety events for Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, and the US News & World Report determined patient safety scores.

Discrepancies were found for pressure ulcer rates, perioperative hemorrhage or hematoma rates, and postoperative respiratory failure rates.

 

JointCommissionJournal

Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2016;42(10):439-446.

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