An online report card is scheduled to be unveiled today in an ambitious attempt to compare more than 200 California hospitals on more than 50 quality measures ranging from maternity care to cardiac treatment and patient satisfaction.
While a dizzying array of hospital report cards already exists, the developers of the Web site CalHospitalCompare.org (www.calhospitalcompare.org) say it's the most comprehensive site for people to use when making decisions about where to receive health services.
"There is no other Web site ... that combines data from this many sources," said Dr. R. Adams Dudley, project director for the Institute for Health Policy Studies at UCSF, which collected and analyzed the data for the site.
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While it's always good to get more information into the hands of those can use it, I worry if folks can interpret it in a proper context. Will this encourage hospitals and Doctors to turn away their more difficult cases to protect their stats. Don't kid yourself, that could very well happen...
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