title: Mandated hospital severity reports stir controversy in PA.
abstract: Do severity of illness data influence consumers' health care decisions? A debate on the issue is raging in Pennsylvania, where a 2-year-old program mandates that severity of illness data be publicized. Pennsylvania's program will end in 1992, unless it's renewed by the state legislature.
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Koska
mesh_terms: D003256:Community Participation; D003363:Cost Control; D003625:Data Collection / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006286:Health Planning Councils / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D006751:Hospital Information Systems / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D006801:Humans; D009017:Morbidity; D009026:Mortality; D010414:Pennsylvania; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D012720:Severity of Illness Index