Monday, April 23, 2007

Hospital Performance Improvement: Trends on Quality and Efficiency—A Quantitative Analysis of Performance Improvement in U.S. Hospitals

www.cmwf.org/publications/publications_show.htm?doc_id=471264

E. Kroch, M. Duan, S. Silow-Carroll et al.,
The Commonwealth Fund, April 2007


This report from The Commonwealth Fund presents results of a quantitative examination of the dynamics of hospital performance: the degree to which hospitals are improving (or deteriorating) in quality and efficiency over time.

Results indicate significant improvements across hospitals in reducing mortality and increasing efficiency over 2001–2005, with mixed results in complication and morbidity rates.