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Session: National Efforts to Publicly Report Hospital Quality Information
5164.0: Wednesday, November 10, 2004: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM
Oral
National Efforts to Publicly Report Hospital Quality Information
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is engaged in several initiatives for public reporting of hospital performance measures designed to help improve hospital quality and consumer decision making. As part of this effort, a standard survey is being developed that measures hospital performance from the patient perspective.
Learning Objectives: The participant will understand better how to implement a national hospital quality public reporting program.
Presider(s):Diane L. Adams, MD, MPH
2:30 PMRace/Ethnicity Variations in Utilization and Expenditure Rates for Asthma-related Care among Medicaid-covered Non-elderly Adults from all States and the District of Columbia in 1999
M. Beth Benedict, DrPH, JD
2:45 PMMedicare's Hospital Quality Initiative: The development and testing of websites featuring comparative clinical quality information  [ Recorded presentation ]
Fiona D. Smith, MPH, David Miranda, PhD, Margaret Gerteis, PhD
3:00 PMSESSION ABSTRACT: National efforts to publicly report hospital quality information: Results of four studies
David Miranda, PhD, Harlan Krumholz, MD
3:15 PMPhysicians' views on public reporting of hospital quality measures  [ Recorded presentation ]
Judith K. Barr, ScD, Shulamit Bernard, PhD, Tierney E. Sherwin, MPA, Shoshanna Sofaer, DrPH, David Miranda, PhD, Nancy Lenfestey, MPH
3:30 PMImplementing a National Program for the Public Reporting of Hospital Quality Indicators: Lessons from the National Voluntary Hospital Reporting Initiative  [ Recorded presentation ]
Myles Maxfield, PhD, David Miranda, PhD
3:45 PMHospital Patient Perspectives on Care Survey for Public Reporting: What is Important from the Consumer Perspective  [ Recorded presentation ]
Elizabeth Goldstein, PhD, Christine Crofton, PhD, Shoshanna Sofaer, DrPH, Elizabeth Hoy, MHA, William Lehrman, PhD, Samantha Sheridan, MA
See individual abstracts for presenting author's disclosure statement and author's information.
Organized by:Health Administration
CE Credits:CME, Health Education (CHES), Nursing

The 132nd Annual Meeting (November 6-10, 2004) of APHA