title: Top quality hospitals have higher survival rates, with sicker patients.
abstract: Patients in the highest quality hospitals have 12% to 20% better survival rates. Many improvements were made, but there's a long road ahead to reach ultimate quality goals. Benchmarking called the first step to achieving high ranking in hospital report cards.
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007255:Information Services; D015996:Survival Rate; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014481:United States