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Health Care: Employers Urge Hospitals to Battle Costs Using Performance Data Systems

HEHS-95-1 Published: Oct 03, 1994. Publicly Released: Oct 12, 1994.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed three communities' experiences with hospital performance measurement systems, focusing on: (1) the purposes for which employer coalitions and hospitals are using comparative performance measurement systems; and (2) whether these systems report the information employers and hospitals need to compare outcomes.

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Comparative analysisCost effectiveness analysisData collectionData integrityHealth care cost controlHospital administrationHospital care servicesManagement information systemsMedical information systemsQuality assurance