Hospital Quality Data Available

“Photo” by SilasCamargo is licensed under CC0. The Joint Commission has released its 2016 annual report on America’s hospitals. The report contains data contributed by more than 3,300 hospitals nationwide. Extensive changes were made to the metrics collected in past years. Several measures previously included were dropped from the data collection process because hospital performance was consistently high and considered to no longer represent a useful quality metric. The new process now gives organizations a choice in determining which measures to report. Additionally, eCQM (electronic clinical quality measures) are now reported. Examples of the national performance summary data presented include measures of rates of tobacco screening, influenza immunization, stroke education, percent of stroke patients discharged on statin medications and more. While the annual report synthesizes data collected from hospitals nationwide, granular data reflecting the quality and safety results for individual hospitals may be found on The Joint Commission Quality Check website. See Annual Report – Improving America’s Hospitals to learn more about the data collection process and view the results of the report. Citation: America’s Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety – The Joint Commission’s Annual Report 2016 Follow NN/LM SCR on Twitter and like us on Facebook. –Written by Lisa Smith, NN/LM SCR    
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