Did hospital engagement networks actually improve care?

Peter Pronovost; Ashish K. Jha

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Did hospital engagement networks actually improve care?

September 3, 2014

Pronovost P, Jha AK. N Engl J Med. 2014;371(8):691-693.

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In this commentary, the authors raise concerns about the validity of large-scale reductions in patient harms and readmissions reported by the Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks initiative. They describe how lack of standardized measures and peer review to evaluate the interventions may affect the reliability of the results.

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