Attitudes of hospital leaders toward publicly reported measures of health care quality.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Public reporting of quality is considered a key strategy for stimulating improvement efforts at US hospitals; however, little is known about the attitudes of hospital leaders toward existing quality measures.

Objectives

To describe US hospital leaders' attitudes toward hospital quality measures found on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' Hospital Compare website, assess use of these measures for quality improvement, and examine the association between leaders' attitudes and hospital quality performance.

Design, setting, and participants

We mailed a 21-item questionnaire from January 1 through September 31, 2012, to senior hospital leaders from a stratified random sample of 630 US hospitals, including equal numbers with better-than-expected, as-ex

SUBMITTER: Lindenauer PK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4250277 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature