Premier launches new hospital QI collaborative.
Measurements will include mortality, appropriate care, efficiency, harm avoidance, patient satisfaction. Improving health of communities is one of program's primary aims. Goal is to move 50% of participants into the top quartiles for all measures.
D001363:Awards and Prizes; D019985:Benchmarking; D018672:Community Health Planning; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards*; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006801:Humans; D009657:North Carolina; D017060:Patient Satisfaction; D016730:Program Development; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D017751:Safety Management; D017749:Total Quality Management / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology