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. 2017 May 16;317(19):2015-2017.
doi: 10.1001/jama.2017.3148.

Associations Between Hospital Characteristics, Measure Reporting, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings

John O DeLancey  1 , Jeffrey Softcheck  2 , Jeanette W Chung  1 , Cynthia Barnard  2 , Allison R Dahlke  1 , Karl Y Bilimoria  1
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Associations Between Hospital Characteristics, Measure Reporting, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Overall Hospital Quality Star Ratings

John O DeLancey et al. JAMA. .

Abstract

This study uses CMS Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating data to estimate associations between hospital characteristics, number and types of measures reported, and the CMS Hospital Quality Star Ratings.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: All authors have completed and submitted the ICMJE Form for Disclosure of Potential Conflicts of Interest. Dr Bilimoria reports having received support from the National Institutes of Health, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, American Board of Surgery, American College of Surgeons, Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Health Care Services Corporation, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, Mallinckrodt, and Northwestern University. No other disclosures were reported.

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Figure.. Mean No. of Hospital Quality Measures Reported (of 62 Total Possible Measures) by Hospital Typea
aError bars represent 95% CIs. Includes hospitals that met the reporting threshold of at least 3 measures within at least 1 Outcome group (mortality, readmissions, safety). Using the Kruskal-Wallis test, P<.001 for all pairwise comparisons except between critical access and specialty hospitals (P = .96).
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