Study finds public reporting of heart-bypass surgery outcomes in California has not reduced access
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 09:01
in Health & Medicine
New UC Davis research has found that patients scheduled to undergo coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery in California were just as ill in 2003 - when public reporting of performance data for this particular surgery began - as in 2006, evidence that "report cards" did not cause doctors or hospitals to turn away sicker patients.