Hospital performance trends on national quality measures and the association with Joint Commission accreditation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Evaluations of the impact of hospital accreditation have been previously hampered by the lack of nationally standardized data. One way to assess this impact is to compare accreditation status with other evidence-based measures of quality, such as the process measures now publicly reported by The Joint Commission and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

Objectives

To examine the association between Joint Commission accreditation status and both absolute measures of, and trends in, hospital performance on publicly reported quality measures for common diseases.

Design, setting, and patients

Performance data for 2004 and 2008 from U.S. acute care and critical access hospitals were obtained using publicly available CMS Hospital Compare data augm

SUBMITTER: Schmaltz SP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3265714 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature