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 ...

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 ...

New quality measures for skilled nursing facilities will be introduced in the coming months, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services officials said during an Open Door Forum call for providers ...

Quality of life in breast cancer patients receiving sentinel-node (SN) biopsy alone or with axillary dissection (AD): Results from NSABP Protocol B-32 No significant financial relationships to ...