The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Tuesday added new measures to its compare websites for inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term hospital stays. CMS' compare sites list the ...

With the public release of Hospital Compare data for more than 4200 hospitals in April 2005, national efforts to report hospital quality to the public passed a major milestone. Our findings indicate ...

In another move that strengthens CMS positioning itself as a champion of better quality care, CMS has added outpatient indicators to hospital performance measurements listed on its Hospital Compare ...

With the proliferation of public quality reporting, Health & Human Services' Hospital Compare website is causing hospitals and health systems to hone in on new improvement targets, such as the patient ...

Motivation: Frequently, comparing samples from two populations is of interest. For example, is the average height in the US different from that in China? If they are different, how different? Goal: In ...

Editor’s note: This is the last story in a four-part series looking at Eureka’s Fair Wage Act, known as Measure R, which will be on the city’s Nov. 4 General Election ballot. The first article was an ...

Medical Care, Vol. 33, No. 4, The Proceedings of the Conference on Measuring the Effects of Medical Treatment (Apr., 1995), pp. AS67-AS76 (10 pages) This study examines the correspondence between ...

Core Performance Measures in "Hospital Compare" Of 4203 hospitals that submitted core measures as part of Hospital Compare, 4126 had at least 1 core measure eligible for analysis (< 25 observations).