Background: Outcome measures, like hospital standardized mortality ratios (HSMRs), are
increasingly used to assess quality of care. The validity of HSMRs and their accuracy to …

Objectives To determine the proportion of avoidable deaths (due to acts of omission and
commission) in acute hospital trusts in England and to determine the association with the …

Background Several countries use hospital-wide mortality rates to evaluate the quality of
hospital care, although the usefulness of this metric has been questioned. Massachusetts …

Older adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCC s) require considerable health services
and complex care. Because the persistence and progression of diseases and courses of …

The quality of health care is important to American consumers, and discussion on quality will
be a driving force toward improving the delivery of health care in America. Funding agencies …

BACKGROUND: Pneumonia is a leading cause of hospitalization and death in the elderly,
and remains the subject of both local and national quality improvement efforts. OBJECTIVE …

Purpose This research aims to explore the fine-grained relationships between nurse staffing
and hospital operational performance with respect to care quality and operating costs. The …

The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety (work environment, security)
The extent of variation across these five methods is emphasized by the fact that, for example …

Background Dengue, an arboviral disease, is a public health problem in tropical and
subtropical regions worldwide. In Brazil, epidemics have become increasingly important …

This study investigates the causal effect of hospital volume on health gains from hip
replacement surgery in the English National Health Service. We exploit a unique dataset …