Study: Public Performance Reporting indicates Hospital Mortality Rates

Hospital performance for publicly reported conditions such as heart attack, congestive heat failure and pneumonia, could predict overall hospital performance, according to a study by the Harvard School of Public Health.

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The study, published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine, used Medicare data from 6.7 million hospitalizations across 2,322 hospitals.
 
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Findings indicated that mortality rates for the three publically reported conditions predicted overall medical and surgical mortality, though the correlation was weaker for larger hospitals and teaching hospitals.
 

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