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 ...

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 ...

With the proliferation of public quality reporting, Health & Human Services' Hospital Compare website is causing hospitals and health systems to hone in on new improvement targets, such as the patient ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Subscribe for analysis that goes beyond the noise. The NYT ran a piece showing the decline in earmarks in spending bills over the last three years. The article shows the dollar value of earmarks fell ...