The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Tuesday added new measures to its compare websites for inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term hospital stays. CMS' compare sites list the ...

With the public release of Hospital Compare data for more than 4200 hospitals in April 2005, national efforts to report hospital quality to the public passed a major milestone. Our findings indicate ...

In another move that strengthens CMS positioning itself as a champion of better quality care, CMS has added outpatient indicators to hospital performance measurements listed on its Hospital Compare ...

The Census Bureau has just published the results from its new alternative measure of poverty, called the Supplemental Poverty Measure, and they differ notably from the poverty rates shown by the ...

Motivation: Frequently, comparing samples from two populations is of interest. For example, is the average height in the US different from that in China? If they are different, how different? Goal: In ...

To compare energy expenditure (EE) measured by doubly labeled water (DLW) with other measures, both physical and based on subjective questionnaires. EE was assessed by DLW (validated using ...

Medical Care, Vol. 33, No. 4, The Proceedings of the Conference on Measuring the Effects of Medical Treatment (Apr., 1995), pp. AS67-AS76 (10 pages) This study examines the correspondence between ...

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Journal of Hospital Medicine. 2007;2(3):128-134. Core measures that CMS defined as having too few cases (< 25) to reliably ascertain an estimate of hospital performance, or for which hospitals were ...