Medicare's Investment in Quality Improvement May Not be Paying Off
Friday, July 01, 2005
- Organization: EurekaAlert
- Link: http://weeklydigest.c.topica.com
Medicare's quality improvement organizations are charged with improving the medical care of Medicare beneficiaries. A new study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health reports that hospitals that actively participate with these quality improvement organizations do not consistently show any greater improvement than hospitals that do not.
