Public Release of Hospital Quality-of-Care Report Cards Did Not Improve Hospital Performance

OPEN MINDS Weekly News Wire Strategic Health Care News Public release of hospitals’ cardiac quality-of-care baseline report cards failed to result in significant systemwide improvement in a follow-up review, compared to hospitals that received their cardiac quality-of-care baseline report 18 months later without publicity. Determining 'system-wide improvement' for both groups of hospitals was based on 12 process-of-care indicators for acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and six for congestive heart failure (CHF). For the early feedback group whose data was publicly released, there were no changes in the composite AMI scores or the CHF . . .