What are the drawbacks of quality reporting?
For one thing, quality reporting can be overwhelming and even confusing. With different agencies reporting on different data, healthcare consumers confront great variation within the information that’s available. Another concern is that different hospitals may use slightly different methods to collect and report their data. So, you may not be able to exactly compare one hospital’s scores with scores from another hospital. Nonetheless, the quality scores can give you a general idea of the hospital’s level of commitment to quality performance.
