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Special Issue of Health Services Research Examines Public Reporting on Health Care Providers

A new AHRQ-sponsored special issue of Health Services Researchexplores how to improve public reporting systems, the resources that aim to help consumers get the most value from their health care dollars by comparing health care providers. With wide variations in safety and quality among providers in virtually every area of health care, public reports have tremendous potential to help consumers select providers that offer high-quality, affordable care. However, current reports don’t necessarily help consumers as intended. The research featured in this issue shows how public reports can be improved by incorporating evidence-based best practices. Access the table of contents for abstracts of special issue articles:

• Introduction: New Evidence on What Works in Effective Public Reporting
• Choosing a Nursing Home: What Do Consumers Want to Know, and Do Preferences Vary across Race/Ethnicity?
• Understanding Consumer Perceptions and Awareness of Hospital-Based Maternity Care Quality Measures
• The Nursing Home Compare Report Card: Perceptions of Residents and Caregivers Regarding Quality Ratings and Nursing Home Choice
• Improving Medicare’s Hospital Compare Mortality Model
• Breaking Narrative Ground: Innovative Methods for Rigorously Eliciting and Assessing Patient Narratives
• Using Social Media, Online Social Networks, and Internet Search as Platforms for Public Health Interventions: A Pilot Study
• Changes in Consumer Demand Following Public Reporting of Summary Quality Ratings: An Evaluation in Nursing Homes  

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VOLUME 51 | NUMBER 3 | JUNE 2016

• Introduction

• Brent Sandmeyer and Irene Fraser
  New Evidence on What Works in Effective Public Reporting

• Improving the Science and Practice of Public Reporting

• Jennifer Gaudet Hefele, Andrea Acevedo, Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson, Christine Bishop, Yasmin Abbas, Ecaterina Damien and Candi Ramos
  Choosing a Nursing Home: What Do Consumers Want to Know, and Do Preferences Vary across Race/Ethnicity?
• Maureen Maurer, Kirsten Firminger, Pam Dardess, Kourtney Ikeler, Shoshanna Sofaer and Kristin L. Carman
  Understanding Consumer Perceptions and Awareness of Hospital-Based Maternity Care Quality Measures
• Marilyn M. Schapira, Judy A. Shea, Katia A. Duey, Carly Kleiman and Rachel M. Werner
  The Nursing Home Compare Report Card: Perceptions of Residents and Caregivers Regarding Quality Ratings and Nursing Home Choice
• Jeffrey H. Silber, Ville A. Satopää, Nabanita Mukherjee, Veronika Rockova, Wei Wang, Alexander S. Hill, Orit Even-Shoshan, Paul R. Rosenbaum and Edward I. George
  Improving Medicare's Hospital Compare Mortality Model
• Rachel Grob, Mark Schlesinger, Andrew M. Parker, Dale Shaller, Lacey Rose Barre, Steven C. Martino, Melissa L. Finucane, Lise Rybowski and Jennifer L. Cerully
  Breaking Narrative Ground: Innovative Methods for Rigorously Eliciting and Assessing Patient Narratives
• Marco D. Huesch, Aram Galstyan, Michael K. Ong and Jason N. Doctor
  Using Social Media, Online Social Networks, and Internet Search as Platforms for Public Health Interventions: A Pilot Study
• Rachel M. Werner, R. Tamara Konetzka and Daniel Polsky
  Changes in Consumer Demand Following Public Reporting of Summary Quality Ratings: An Evaluation in Nursing Homes