Hospital Compare: A Consumer-Oriented Website for Comparing Hospital Services

This presentation discusses Hospital Compare, a consumer-oriented website that provides information on hospital services and allows consumers to select and compare hospitals based on performance measures. The presentation covers several hospitals, including Howard County General Hospital, Saint Agnes Hospital, and Northwest Hospital Center, and highlights the importance of promoting reporting on hospital quality of care. The presentation also includes a reference list for further reading.

HOSPITAL
COMPARE
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• Consumer- oriented website
• Provides information on hospital
services (James, 2013)
• Allows consumers to select a number of
hospitals
• Consumers can compare performance
measure
• Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating
("Hospital Compare - Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services", 2017)

HOWARD
COUNTY
GENERAL
HOSPITAL
• Patients experience- Acute Care
hospitals
• Provides Emergency Services
• Two conditions- Able to receive
electronic lab results
• Able to track all results
• Readmission, complications and
deaths- Use of total outpatient safe
surgery list
• Use of total inpatient safe surgery

CONTINUED…
• Hospital Consumer Assessment of
Healthcare Providers and systems is a
national survey
• Improvement of data- Asking the
patients about their experience that
they had during their recent hospital
stay
• Update frequencies and data
collection periods
• The individual measures are subject

SAINT AGNES
HOSPITAL
• Timely and effective care data- The
frequency of time at which the
hospitals provide care
• Patients experience- Best results for
patients with special conditions
• Compare the best hospital who gives
recommended care as part of the
overall care

CONTINUED…
• Patients might get other
problems apart from their own
diseases
• Patients might experience
problems after they are
discharged
• Patients might have to be
hospitalized again
• Such occurrence can be

NORTHWEST
HOSPITAL
CENTER
• Returning back to hospital disturbs
patients’ lives
• Patients experience- Increases the risk
of harmful infections
• Hospital return days total up the days
at inpatient unit
• Return to emergency department
within one month of discharge

CONTINUED…
• Outpatient imaging efficiency
measures give information
• Protecting the safety of patients
• Readmission and complication of
deaths- Proper follow up of the
tests
• Avoiding risk, stress, and costs of

SUMMARY
• Promote reporting on hospital
quality of care
• Represented consumers,
hospitals, providers and others
• Standardized instrument and
data collection methodology

REFERENCE
 James, J. T. (2013). A new, evidence-
based estimate of patient harms
associated with hospital care. Journal of
patient safety, 9(3), 122-128.
 Hospital Compare - Centers for
Medicare & Medicaid Services.
(2017). Cms.gov. Retrieved 2 December
2017, from
https://www.cms.gov/medicare/quality-
initiatives-patient-assessment-
instruments/hospitalqualityinits/
hospitalcompare.html

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