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Effort to measure quality of hospitals still evolving.

Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)
Publication Date: 31-MAY-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Effort to measure quality of hospitals still evolving.(Health)

Article Excerpt
Byline: THE HEALTH FILES By Tim Christie The Register-Guard

If you're buying a new car, you can find lots of information rating the quality and reliability of different models in consumer and automotive magazines.

If you're choosing a hospital or nursing home, though, and you're looking for ratings that compare quality of care and patient safety records, good luck.

Such information is hard to come by, despite efforts by consumer groups and government agencies to prod hospitals and other health providers into publicly disclosing information about preventable medical errors and infection rates.

The idea is that public reporting of such information will improve patient safety by reducing preventable errors. But the effort to make comparative quality information on health organizations readily available to consumers is still in its infancy.

Oregon made a step in that direction when the Legislature last year established the Patient Safety Commission. The 17-member panel is still getting organized but plans to collect information on preventable medical errors from hospitals, pharmacies and nursing...

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