Hospitals respond to public disclosure of mortality, complications and prices.
When Florida became one of the first states in the nation to use a public website to disclose data on hospital mortalities, infections, complications and prices, some hospitals began to immediately plan or speed up performance improvement projects.
D003428:Cross Infection; D005431:Florida; D017722:Hospital Charges; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D007256:Information Systems; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014342:Truth Disclosure