Factbox: Check out your hospital before you check in
(Reuters) – Even the hospital industry agrees that too little information about hospitals’ quality of care and patient outcomes is made public for people to make an informed choice about where to go. Until there is greater “medical transparency,” patients can get at least some information from several sources: The Joint Commission, a private non-profit that accredits hospitals, produces a free report that lists “top performing” hospitals as judged by the quality of care they provide for heart attacks, stroke, and five other conditions: http://www. jointcommission. . . .
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