A “road map” for improved performance should emerge from the Canadian Institute for
Health Information's (CIHI) new Web-based benchmarking tool for the nation's 600 hospitals …

by Victor E. Sower f you look at many hospitals' websites and other resources they make
publicly available, you will often see charts, graphs or tables showing hospital performance …

Objective Develop an improved method for auditing hospital cost and quality tailored to a
specific hospital's patient population. Data Sources/Setting Medicare claims in general …

Widespread demands for increased transparency and relentless pressures to contain costs
in the face of declining government-backed reimbursement are compelling hospitals to focus …

Ontario's acute-care general teaching hospitals demonstrate considerable variation in their
average costs. In order to reduce or eliminate unacceptable sources of cost variation and …

The nation's best-performing hospitals, as determined by two healthcare management and
consulting firms, still register results that separate them from the pack. The hospitals' …

If your hospital plans to participate in the 2002 Hospitals & Health Networks Most Wired
Survey and Benchmarking Study, skip this column. And thank you. Your efforts will be …

The indicators are calculated from the routine hospital discharge data in the National
Minimum Dataset. The benchmarks are set at either the 20th or 80th centile as a cut‐point …

Welcome to the age of transparency. Spurred by an unprecedented convergence of forces,
dissemination of hospital performance data is at the forefront of the quality movement …

Purpose Hospitals worldwide are facing the same opportunities and threats: the
demographics of an aging population; steady increases in chronic diseases and severe …