With the public release of Hospital Compare data for more than 4200 hospitals in April 2005, national efforts to report hospital quality to the public passed a major milestone. Our findings indicate ...

In another move that strengthens CMS positioning itself as a champion of better quality care, CMS has added outpatient indicators to hospital performance measurements listed on its Hospital Compare ...

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vol. 19, Special issue on Demographic aspects of human wellbeing (2021), pp. 67-90 (26 pages) Subjective well-being (SWB) is an overall evaluation of the ...

Motivation: Frequently, comparing samples from two populations is of interest. For example, is the average height in the US different from that in China? If they are different, how different? Goal: In ...

Medical Care, Vol. 33, No. 4, The Proceedings of the Conference on Measuring the Effects of Medical Treatment (Apr., 1995), pp. AS67-AS76 (10 pages) This study examines the correspondence between ...

Quality of life in breast cancer patients receiving sentinel-node (SN) biopsy alone or with axillary dissection (AD): Results from NSABP Protocol B-32 No significant financial relationships to ...

Core Performance Measures in "Hospital Compare" Of 4203 hospitals that submitted core measures as part of Hospital Compare, 4126 had at least 1 core measure eligible for analysis (< 25 observations).