Should a performance report be the sole reason for selecting — or not selecting — a healthcare organization, like a hospital?
Performance reports are intended to be helpful in making judgments about potential physicians, practitioners or providers. However, they should not serve as the sole basis for any decision. Deciding on treatment options and choosing a hospital, practitioner, or health plan are decisions you should make by talking with your healthcare practitioner.You should not attempt to choose a hospital, healthcare practitioner, or health plan based solely on statistics and descriptions such as those given here. These statistics and descriptions do not begin to represent all there is to know about the quality of health care. Current methods of assessing healthcare performance are simply not mature enough to support such a use.
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