The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Tuesday added new measures to its compare websites for inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term hospital stays. CMS' compare sites list the ...

To compare energy expenditure (EE) measured by doubly labeled water (DLW) with other measures, both physical and based on subjective questionnaires. EE was assessed by DLW (validated using ...

With the public release of Hospital Compare data for more than 4200 hospitals in April 2005, national efforts to report hospital quality to the public passed a major milestone. Our findings indicate ...

In another move that strengthens CMS positioning itself as a champion of better quality care, CMS has added outpatient indicators to hospital performance measurements listed on its Hospital Compare ...

With the proliferation of public quality reporting, Health & Human Services' Hospital Compare website is causing hospitals and health systems to hone in on new improvement targets, such as the patient ...

Motivation: Frequently, comparing samples from two populations is of interest. For example, is the average height in the US different from that in China? If they are different, how different? Goal: In ...

Background/aim Consumer-based physical activity (PA) monitors have become popular tools to track PA behaviours. Currently, little is known about the validity of the measurements provided by consumer ...

Quality of life in breast cancer patients receiving sentinel-node (SN) biopsy alone or with axillary dissection (AD): Results from NSABP Protocol B-32 No significant financial relationships to ...

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