At the same time, the scorecard highlights some bright spots for that U.S., with notable gains in quality of care in areas that have been the main objective of public reporting or collaborative improvement initiatives. For example, 50 % of adults rich in blood pressure level been with them in order in 2007-2008, in contrast to only 31 percent in 1999-2000. In addition, hospital quality indicators to treat cardiac arrest, heart failure, and pneumonia, and prevention of surgical complications, have improved substantially across the country since hospitals began publicly reporting their quality data by way of a federal website.
A shift by the federal government in how it pays for drugs for dialysis patients may have had an unintended and potentially dire consequence, researchers say.