Impact of public reporting on unreported quality of care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The impact of quality improvement incentives on nontargeted care is unknown and some have expressed concern that such incentives may be harmful to nontargeted areas of care. Our objective is to examine the effect of publicly reporting quality information on unreported quality of care.

Data sources/study setting

The nursing home Minimum Data Set from 1999 to 2005 on all postacute care admissions.

Study design

We studied 13,683 skilled nursing facilities and examined how unreported aspects of clinical care changed in response to changes in reported care after public reporting was initiated by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on their website, Nursing Home Compare, in 2002.

Principal findings

We find that overall both unreported and reporte

SUBMITTER: Werner RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2677045 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature