This report presents how America’s accredited hospitals performed against evidence-based quality measures relating to the care of heart attacks, heart failure, and pneumonia, and to surgical infection prevention during the 2005 year. This report updates a paper on 2002-2004 quality measures published by The Joint Commission in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2005 (NEJM, 2005;353;3; 28-37).
These measures are also utilized for the “Hospital Quality Alliance: Improving Care through Information” initiative.
This report also presents hospital performance in complying with the requirements of the Joint Commission 2005 National Patient Safety Goals.
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