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Pronovost Calls for an 'SEC' for Healthcare Quality
Another hospital quality scorecard seems to appear nearly every month these days, and Wednesday's release of the Joint Commission's "Top Performers" is right on schedule for September.
In March, it was HealthGrades' 50/100 hospitals list and in April, Thomson Reuters released its top 100. June ushered the Leapfrog Group's Safety Scores. And in July, Consumer Reports and U.S. News & World Report published their all-star lineups weeks apart.
Slideshow: 3 Hospital Rating Tools Compared
See how top hospitals measure up across three ratings systems. We compare hospital safety scores from the Leapfrog Group and Consumer Reports alongside the overall rankings of U.S. News & World Report's 17 top-rated hospitals. >>>
And in late July, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services uploaded to the Hospital Compare website a massive three-year data update for dozens of measures including 30-day readmissions and value-based purchasing scores.
Each of these groups uses different —though sometimes overlapping and often contradictory—criteria, thresholds, and weighted algorithms. It's enough to make you dizzy.
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dr. dre (9/20/2012 at 4:01 PM)
This is a foolish comment. The SEC reporting mechanisms are founded on centuries of double entry book-keeping, for which there is no corollary in health care statistics. It is another "improvement" from government. The government gave us rotary dial phones with party lines. Deregulation gave us the iPhone 5.