Open AccessAssociation of Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating With Outcomes in Advanced Laparoscopic Abdominal Surgery
Author(s) -
Christina Y. Koh,
Colette S. Inaba,
Sarath Sujatha-Bhaskar,
Ninh T. Nguyen
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
jama surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.757
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 2168-6262
pISSN - 2168-6254
DOI - 10.1001/jamasurg.2017.2212
Subject(s) - medicine , colectomy , abdominal surgery , medicaid , general surgery , emergency medicine , surgery , health care , colorectal cancer , cancer , economics , economic growth
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released the Overall Hospital Quality Star Rating to help patients compare hospitals based on a 5-star scale. The star rating was designed to assess overall quality of the institution; thus, its validity toward specifically assessing surgical quality is unknown.
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