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New Web sites help Utahns compare hospital costs, quality 11/14/06
Salt Lake City Tribune
Relationship Between Medicare’s Hospital Compare Performance
Context In response to concerns about the quality of care in US hospitals, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services began measuring hospital performance and reporting this performance on their Web site, Hospital Compare.
Hospital ratings fall short in comparing death rates, study says
The Hospital Compare site shows how hospitals stack up on recommended treatments and is designed to help consumers comparison shop for health care. The study examined three conditions that often lead to hospitalization — heart attacks,
Relationship Between Medicare’s Hospital Compare Performance
To determine whether quality measured with the process measures used in Hospital Compare are correlated with and predictive of hospitals' risk-adjusted mortality ratesConclusions: Hospital performance measures predict small
The Dark Side of Pay for Performance
Amazing. But what was beautiful about this study, was the data mining of the data came from The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)’s own Hospital Compare website. Hospital performance measures that were supposed to ferret
Pulmonary artery catheter versus pulse contour analysis: a
Accordingly, we sought to study and compare the features and outcome of patients who receive mechanical ventilation days, ICU days, hospital days and hospital mortality. On direct comparison, patients with PAC were older (68 vs.
Interventions of hospital pharmacists in improving drug therapy in
In conclusion, although it was difficult to compare the various studies identified because of the different settings, design, duration, size, methodology and definition, all these studies highlighted the importance of hospital
A Paperless Hospital Information System for less than 1Million
Compare that to the tens, or hundreds of millions of dollars being spent for equivalent functionality in an American hospital of equal size and you're left scratching your head. In fact, even in those American hospitals spending that
Brief Note on Mashups
This mashup uses "variety of private and public data sources so that shoppers can find a physician and compare hospital prices for medical procedures." PubWindows -Searches PubMed as well as three other PubMed text mining tools:
Death Rates Nearly the Same at Highest and Lowest Quality
Death rates at hospitals that rank at the top of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Hospital Compare web site aren’t significantly different than those at hospitals rated at the bottom, according to a new study published in
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