Quality Assurance

Very-low-birthweight babies' outcomes are better hospital selection criteria

Published in Biotech Business Week, January 26th, 2004

Using a direct quality indicator, such as a survival rate, may be more effective than using an indirect quality indicator, such as patient volume, when selecting hospitals for care of a very low birth weight infant.

According to a study in the January 14, 2004, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), evidence-based selective referral strategies are being used by an increasing number of insurers to ensure that medical care is provided by high-quality providers and to make sure that patients with high-risk conditions are treated in hospitals with the best outcomes. In the absence of direct-quality measures based on patient outcomes, the...

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Source: Biotech Business Week (2004-01-26)

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