Insights from the Armstrong Institute
If you understand statistics and possess the intestinal fortitude to examine a ranking methodology, you will recognize that it involves ingredients that have to be… Read More »More Science, Less Sausage-Making Needed for Hospital Quality Measures
In this post, I present the case that U.S. News & World Report’s patient safety score, a component of its annual Best Hospitals rankings, has… Read More »Potential Bias in U.S. News Patient Safety Scores
Some measures of health care quality and patient safety should be taken with a grain of salt. A few need a spoonful. In April, a… Read More »Why Health Care Performance Measures Need Their Own Grades