title: Premier launches new hospital QI collaborative.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: 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