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Report Overview

Type of Report:Hospital
Publication Date:Ongoing
Geographic Area:International: United Kingdom
Language(s): English
Target Audience:Consumers, referring physicians
Previous Reports:
Web Site is Searchable or Interactive:Yes
Print Version and/or PDF:

Measure Categories

Clinical quality
  • Process
  • Outcomes
  • Utilization/volume
  • Structural

Note: Clinical data are risk-adjusted.

Patient experience

No patient experience information available.

Also Includes:

Conditions or Procedures: Measures available for specific conditions and/or procedures.
Comments:Provides risk-adjusted hospital-specific mortality rates for 80 ICD-9 diagnoses that make up 80% of inpatient deaths. Additional mortality data for CABG, stroke, hip fracture; gives other quality and service standards for 11 clinical categories, as well as process measures such as use of thrombolytics in ED and CCU. Also gives volume figures for CABG.

Presentation Strategies

How Data Are Displayed:
  • Symbols to represent relative performance
  • Numeric data
  • Bar graphs
How Scores Are Presented: Both absolute and relative values
What Scores Are Compared To:National average.
Comments:

Content Strategies

Explanatory Text:Yes
Decision Support:No

Additional Information

Last Updated: 2006-02-16



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