Title |
Mandatory quality reports in Germany from the hospitals’ point of view: a cross-sectional observational study
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Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, October 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-12-378 |
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Authors |
Silke Auras, Werner de Cruppé, Karl Blum, Max Geraedts |
Abstract |
Public reporting of hospital quality is to enable providers, patients and the public to make comparisons regarding the quality of care and thus contribute to informed decisions. It stimulates quality improvement activities in hospitals and thus positively impacts treatment results. Hospitals often use publicly reported data for further internal or external purposes.As of 2005, German hospitals are obliged to publish structured quality reports (QR) every two years. This gives them the opportunity to demonstrate their performance by number, type and quality in a transparent way. However, it constitutes a major burden to hospitals to generate and publish data required, and it is yet unknown if hospitals feel adequately represented and at the same time consider the effort appropriate.This study assesses hospital leaders' judgement about the capability of QR to put legally defined aims effectively and efficiently into practice. It also explores the additional purposes hospitals use their QR for. |
X Demographics
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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United States | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Denmark | 1 | 4% |
Germany | 1 | 4% |
Unknown | 22 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 5 | 21% |
Student > Bachelor | 3 | 13% |
Researcher | 3 | 13% |
Professor | 3 | 13% |
Lecturer | 1 | 4% |
Other | 0 | 0% |
Unknown | 9 | 38% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 13% |
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 2 | 8% |
Engineering | 2 | 8% |
Social Sciences | 2 | 8% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 1 | 4% |
Other | 5 | 21% |
Unknown | 9 | 38% |