Healthcare Economist May 18, 2021
Is your hospital high quality? Well, this depends on what quality means. Does it have low readmission rates? Low rates of mortality? Do they follow clinical guidelines? Are patients satisfied? Are they good at cardiology care? What about cancer treatment?
Combining all these different dimensions of quality is a complex task. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services aimed to summarize hospital quality using a star rating system, where hospitals can receive between 1 and 5 stars (5 is better). The results are presented on Hospital Compare. These star ratings are based on 64 metrics across 7 measure categories: mortality, safety of care, readmission, patient experience, effectiveness of care, timeliness of care, and efficient use of medical imaging.
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