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CMS' Hospital Mortality Data Now Shows Risk-Standardized Mortality Rate by Individual Institution
10/06/08
Hospital mortality data recently made available by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services include for the first time each institution's risk-standardized mortality rate, an estimate of the certainty of that rate and the number of cases included in the computations.
The more robust Medicare mortality data set now permits users to drill down from displays that rank hospital quality as "better," "worse," or "no different" than the national rate. In addition to mortality data, the site now includes performance results for pediatric asthma measures, clinical process of care measures and findings from consumer assessments of hospital care (HCAHPS), as well as Medicare payment and volume information. For more information, visit www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov.
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