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

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