Mandatory quality reports in Germany from the hospitals' point of view: a cross-sectional observational study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Public reporting of hospital quality is to enable providers, patients and the public to make comparisons regarding the quality of care and thus contribute to informed decisions. It stimulates quality improvement activities in hospitals and thus positively impacts treatment results. Hospitals often use publicly reported data for further internal or external purposes.As of 2005, German hospitals are obliged to publish structured quality reports (QR) every two years. This gives them the opportunity to demonstrate their performance by number, type and quality in a transparent way. However, it constitutes a major burden to hospitals to generate and publish data required, and it is yet unknown if hospitals feel adequately represented and at the same time consider the effort ap

SUBMITTER: Auras S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3529697 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature