CMS plans to modify its Hospital Compare website on Thursday, adding new measures and updated performance information for certain metrics, according to an AHA News Now report.
CMS will publicly report new measures of hospital performance on stroke and venous thromboembolism care. It will also refresh hospitals' performance data for five readmission measures and one complication measure it had previously suppressed due to calculation issues. The affected measures are heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, hip and knee replacement, hospital-wide readmissions and hip and knee replacement complications.
CMS will also add the rates of two healthcare-associated infections — Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Clostridium Difficile. Data for these infections will not be reported for all hospitals, as some may not have a sufficient sample size to report statistically meaningful rates, according to the report.
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