Impact of public reporting on quality of postacute care.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Evidence supporting the use of public reporting of quality information to improve health care quality is mixed. While public reporting may improve reported quality, its effect on quality of care more broadly is uncertain. This study tests whether public reporting in the setting of nursing homes resulted in improvement of reported and broader but unreported quality of postacute care.

Data sources/study setting

1999-2005 nursing home Minimum Data Set and inpatient Medicare claims.

Study design

We examined changes in postacute care quality in U.S. nursing homes in response to the initiation of public reporting on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services website, Nursing Home Compare. We used small nursing homes that were not subject to public reporting as

SUBMITTER: Werner RM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2739023 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature