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American Health Quality Association
New web site offers hospital performance data
April 26th, 2005
The American Health Quality Association urges consumers and hospital leaders to take advantage of individual hospital performance reports that will be posted on a new federal web site, Hospital Compare. The site will carry data on more than 4200 hospitals nationwide and will be updated quarterly. "The site shows consumers how often their local hospitals are using procedures known to give patients the best chance of surviving and recovering from heart attacks, heart failure, pneumonia and other serious illnesses," said David Schulke, executive vice president of the American Health Quality Association (AHQA), which represents the national network of health care quality...
Source: Cardiovascular Business Week (2005-04-26)
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