A new study from the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, published in the journal Medical Care, performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of two sets of safety measures used for pay-for-performance and public reporting The measures evaluated in the study are used by several public rating systems, including U.S. News and World Report’s Best Hospitals, Leapfrog’s Hospital Safety Score,Continue reading “AHRQ and CMS Public Reporting Measures Fail to Describe the True Safety of Hospitals”
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Emergency Department Return Visits as a Quality Metric
A recent JAMA publication lead-authored by Dr. Amber Sabbatini examined the scientific soundness of emergency department (ED) return visits as a measure of the ED’s quality of care. Emergency department return visits have been considered for wider adoption as a quality metric, especially for those patients who are hospitalized during the return ED visit. The “quality”Continue reading “Emergency Department Return Visits as a Quality Metric”
Marion R. Sills, MD, MPH 