Some doctors worry that hospital public reporting mandates provide only superficial evaluations of care while encouraging doctors to care more about the hospital's ranking that the patient's needs.
MASSDEVICE ON CALL — Doctors at publicly reported hospitals may be negatively influenced by public reporting protocols, according to a presentation at last week's Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Intervention 2014 Scientific Sessions.
When doctors know that rates of admissions and deaths are reporting publicly, they may be less willing to take dramatic steps with emergency patients in order to avoid tying a death to an intervention.
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