5. Public Reporting as a Quality Improvement Strategy

Table I1. Hospital qualitative studies: columns 1-9 of 15 (pages I-1 to I-18) (continued)
Author,
Year
Rainwater
1998 132
Rainwater
2003 133
1. Study
Purpose
To explore the
impact of
reports from
CHOP on efforts
to improve
quality of care
and patient
outcomes.
Hypothesize
that public
dissemination of
outcomes data
would motivate
providers to
investigate ways
to improve their
quality of care.
To explore
whether health
maintenance
organization
(HMO)
executives in
are familiar with
hospital report
cards, whether
they find the
report cards
useful (and if
not, why not),
and how they
weight such
data relative to
other factors in
selection
hospitals to
contract with.
2.
Geographic
3. Study
Design/
Location Type
4. Sample/
Population
California Interviews QI key
informants at
hospitals
previously
identified by
hospital CEOs:
39 interviews
California Survey
(descriptive)
30 of 47 (63.8%)
contacted
representatives
of all licensed
HMOs in the
state at the time
of the study
5. Procedure/
Additional
Description if
Needed 6. Outcomes
Responding on
paper or by
phone,
executives were
asked to review a
list of factors that
might affect their
contracting
choices and rate
on a 1 to 5 scale
where 5 is
extremely
important; report
what information
they used in the
past year, and
whether they
were aware of
several public
reports.
I-25
Patient responses
to semi-structured
interview
questions re:
overall views,
usefulness, and
limitations of
CHOP
Factors
considered in
contracting with
Hospitals
7. Name of
Public
Report or
Subject 8. KQ1: 9. KQ2:
Matter Results Results
CHOP Not Studied Not Studied
Several
available in
CA at the
time.
Not Studied Not Studied