California’s hospital quality data reporting success
Strategies for Health Care Compliance, July 1, 2009
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These days, “quality” and “care” are buzzwords. Hospitals across the country are being held to a high standard, forced to publicly share outcomes data about medical conditions and surgical procedures for everything from chronic lung disease and pneumonia to hernia operations and heart bypass surgery.
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