Quality report cards has been a recent buzzword in government discussions on local and national healthcare standards and 21 states now have them mandated in hospital infection reporting. However, this article questions their effectiveness.
From the article:
Even doctors who support public reporting say implementation of reports needs to be tested just as any other health care intervention should be.
"One of the interesting ironies is that a lot of health care quality work is based on the notion of evidence-based medicine...Systems like public reporting should be evaluated for their impact on quality."
Complete article from the American Medical Association.
