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Compare your organization's performance on key measures of health care quality against that of your peers, a range of benchmarks, or over time. View case studies of high-performing organizations and browse our improvement tools. Learn more »

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St Charles Hospital: Improving Surgical Care Through Best-Practice Literature and Order Sets
From 2004 to 2008, St Charles Hospital achieved dramatic improvement on process-of-care, or core, measures, particularly on those intended to reduce surgical complications. Conversations with administrative and clinical staff indicate that St Charles achievements in surgical care can be attributed to a hospital wide focus on quality improvement spurred by involvement in the national Surgical Care Improvement Project as well as to reliance on best-practice literature to get surgeons on board, use of preprinted order sets to standardize care processes, and a steady focus on tracking performance data and communicating results to physicians and other staff

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Best Hospital Matrix

WhyNotTheBest.org presents hospital performance information as determined by publicly reported process-of-care and patient satisfaction measures. There are numerous programs that measure various aspects of the performance of health care organizations, using different criteria and methodologies. Some calculate rankings, some present awards, and any are "distinctions," or lists of hospitals, health systems, home care organizations, or other health care settings that meet certain criteria. Below we list many of these programs, their sponsors, brief descriptions, and the extent to which winners are consistent from the prior year.

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