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U.S. News & World retort; JCAHO study questions magazine's ranking system.
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Modern Healthcare
Publication Date: 28-AUG-06 |
Format: Online - approximately 1117 words
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Full Article Title: U.S. News & World retort; JCAHO study questions magazine's ranking system.(The Week In Healthcare)(Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations) |
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Article Excerpt
Byline: Joseph Conn
Results of a recently published hospital quality study by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations showed its ratings of hospitals based on treatment of heart patients was at odds with the rankings of hospitals appearing in the popular U.S. News & World Report best hospitals list, reopening the debate about whether process or outcomes measures are the better gauge of performance.
The JCAHO, which uses process evaluation, found in its study of U.S. News' rankings that 13 hospitals in the country performed better than more than 80% of the hospitals on the magazine's list of the 50 best heart and heart-surgery hospitals. U.S. News relies on hospital outcomes, such as mortality rates, and other methods in creating its rankings.
The JCAHO's effort follows a different study published earlier this year that said process-based quality evaluation methods such as the JCAHO's aren't a good predictor of mortality rates for certain conditions (July 3/10, p. 16).
And the JCAHO study, evaluating what is...
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