… adherence to regulations around mandatory data reporting. A prior study conducted at the same hospital found that … goal of improving safety and quality. … Blanchfield BB, Demehin AA, Cummings CT, Ferris TG, Meyer GS. The Cost of …

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) decision to withhold payment for certain hospital-acquired conditions has prompted widespread efforts to prevent such events, including health care–associated infections. Prior research suggests that academic centers and safety-net hospitals may be disproportionately affected by financial penalties imposed by CMS through various pay-for-performance initiatives. In this study, investigators analyzed how hospital size affected performance in the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program. They concluded that hospital size leads to bias when evaluating hospital performance, disproportionately penalizing larger hospitals when the expected complication rate for a particular event is low. The authors provide numerous suggestions for improving the evaluation of hospital performance within the program.

… Medical Colleges … Acad Med … This article provides a step-by-step framework for setting effective annual quality …

… prompted significant debate in the safety community, with a past economic analysis suggesting that adverse events account for a small but significant proportion of overall Medicare … to ensure that such events were not “present on admission”—a new coding category to identify patients whose events …