Association of Hospital Public Quality Reporting With Electronic Health Record Medication Safety Performance.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite billions spent in public investment, electronic health records (EHRs) have not delivered on the promise of large quality and safety improvement. Simultaneously, there is debate on whether public quality reporting is a useful tool to incentivize quality improvement.

Objective

To evaluate whether publicly reported feedback was associated with hospital improvement in an evaluation of medication-related clinical decision support (CDS) safety performance.

Design, settings, and participants

This nonrandomized controlled trial included US hospitals that participated in the Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) Evaluation Tool in the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, a national quality reporting program that evaluates safety performance of hospital CDS using sim

SUBMITTER: Holmgren AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8456388 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature