How Do We Measure Clinical Quality?
Clinical quality measures are based on specific evidence-based practices that have been shown to give the best results to the most people. The categories listed on the left side navigation, such as heart attack (acute myocardial infarction), are selected because they are common diagnoses that affect large numbers of patients. These are clinical areas that hospitals all across the U.S. use to measure and report their performance quality.

How To Read This Report:
An explanation of the scores and how the cell coloring relates to them.

Key

Measures

Clinical Quality Measure - This is what is actually being measured. You can click on each Clinical Quality measure for a longer definition about what this measure means.

Desired Performance - This gives you an idea of whether it's best to have a high score or a low score.