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Communities across the country are initiating or ramping up efforts to publicly report health care quality data. These AF4Q reports shares important findings from our communities about how consumers interpret displays of trend data--a must-read for any community that publicly reports provider performance.
Engaging Consumers in the Display of Quality Information
Published: Apr 2012
Trend data play a valuable role in quality improvement. Results of our formative research showed that communities that publicly report trend data are using it as a quality improvement indicator and...
Published: Apr 2012
Explaining why data are missing from comparative quality reports improves the transparency and consumer-friendliness of reports, thus facilitating an understanding of differences in quality. In tur...
Published: Apr 2012
Although there are a number of specific reasons why quality data reports may be missing for a provider, this report provides specific guidance that focuses on three key reasons:
Too few pat...