Grant: Project Grant

My research will develop and evaluate statistical methods to improve monitoring of the health care system and to assess the impact of interventions to improve the performance of hospitals. Hospital report cards are reports on the quality of care delivered by individual hospitals. The proposed research will allow policy makers to estimate the effect of hospital report cards on reducing adverse patient outcomes such as death or hospital readmission. Furthermore, I will develop statistical methods to allow for the comparison of hospital performance on a range of measures of quality of care. I will also develop methods to allow for the comparison of hospital performance across several years. This will allow for the identification of hospitals that are improving over time and hospitals whose performance is deteriorating over time.