title: Hospital Compare drives hospital performance improvement initiatives.
abstract: On April 1, 2005, the impetus for public reporting of comparative hospital data was ratcheted up a giant notch by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Hospital Quality Alliance. Even before reaching the public's radar screen, Hospital Compare--a website that includes quality measures on how often large, acute-care and smaller, critical care hospitals provide recommended treatments that adults should receive for certain conditions--is having a major impact on hospital performance initiatives.
mesh_terms: D014487:Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, U.S.; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D033181:Information Dissemination; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States