http://www.cms.hhs.gov/quality/hospital/


Hospital Quality Initiative (HQI)


CMS has several efforts in progress to provide hospital quality
information to consumers and others and improve the care provided by the
nation's hospitals. These initiatives build upon previous CMS and QIO
strategies to identify illnesses and/or clinical conditions that affect
Medicare beneficiaries in order to: promote the best medical practices
associated with the targeted clinical disorders; prevent or reduce
further instances of these selected clinical disorders; and prevent
related complications. This page includes links to reports and other
documents that describe these efforts in more detail.