Honesty may not be the best policy for hospital safety grades, study suggests
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 10:32
in Health & Medicine
A new study finds that a well-known hospital grading system may put too much weight on the wrong things. The grades are based in part on hospitals' self-reported use of safety-related protocols. But the study show this had little in common with how a hospital did on independent measurements of hospital-acquired infections -- or with whether the government had penalized it for high infection or readmission rates.