5. Public Reporting as a Quality Improvement Strategy

Table H3. Hospital quantitative studies: Columns 14-18 of 18 (pages H-40 to H-51) (continued)
15. Results: KQ5
(Impact of Public
Author,
Report
16. Results: KQ6 (Impact of
18. Funder of
Year (QA) 14. Results KQ4: (Selection by Patients and Payers) Characteristics) Contextual Factors) 17. Summary/Conclusion Research/Report
Baker 2002 5
None None None Author’s conclusion: We found AHRQ
(Fair)
that risk-adjusted 30-day
mortality did not improve for
three of six conditions and
actually worsened for stroke.
Although we cannot exclude a
beneficial effect of the program
because we observed favorable
trends for COPD and CHF, it
would be difficult to ascribe the
observed trends for these
conditions to the effects of
CHQC.
Baker 2003 4
Mortality: Hospital outlier status (best, above average, None None Author’s summary: No evidence AHRQ funded report
(Fair) below average, worst) was not significantly related to
that hospitals identified as high-
changes in market share for the 6 medical conditions (P
mortality outliers lost market
value NR).
share or that hospitals with
During periods in which hospitals had higher than
better than expected mortality
expected mortality with p