Peer pressure and public reporting within healthcare setting: improving accountability and health care quality in hospitals.
In the last few years, the need of public reporting of health outcomes has acquired a great importance. The public release of performance results could be a tool for improving health care quality and many attempts have been made in order to introduce public reporting programs within the health care context at different levels. It would be necessary to promote the introduction of a standardized set of outcome and performance measures in order to improve quality of health care services and to make health care providers aware of the importance of transparency and accountability.
Istituto Di Igiene, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma. marialucia.specchia@rm.unicatt.it
Maria Lucia
ML
Specchia
Maria Assunta
MA
Veneziano
Chiara
C
Cadeddu
Anna Maria
AM
Ferriero
Silvio
S
Capizzi
Walter
W
Ricciardi
D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D010379:Peer Group; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D012941:Social Responsibility