title: State, hospitals join up for outcomes data.
abstract: In Rhode Island, the hospitals are leading the charge. Suggest to hospitals that they should provide the public with quality data on outcomes, and many balk at the idea. Suggest that a state should adopt a requirement that they do so, and you might expect a full-fledged effort to thwart the legislation. But in Rhode Island, the hospitals not only welcomed the idea, they helped draft the legislation.
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D011635:Public Health Administration; D012237:Rhode Island