Nursing Homes: Public Reporting of Quality Indicators Has Merit, but National Implementation Is Premature

[摘要] A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "GAO was asked to review the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) initiative to publicly report additional information on its "Nursing Home Compare" Web site intended to help consumers choose a nursing home. GAO examined CMS's development of the new nursing home quality indicators and efforts to verify the underlying data used to calculate them. GAO also reviewed the assistance CMS offered the public in interpreting and comparing indicators available in its six-state pilot program, launched in April 2002, and its own evaluation of the pilot. The new indicators are scheduled to be used nationally beginning in November 2002."

[发布日期] 2002-10-31 [发布机构] United States. General Accounting Office.

[关键词] Government accountability -- United States.;health care;nursing homes;letter report