From Physician’s Practice Magazine
With all of the hospital closures in the US, our number is steadily decreasing. Be interesting to compare the hospitalization rates and perceived quality of care between these countries.
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This could be a reflection of our ability to treat and discharge along with all the outpatient stuff (NHs, group homes, PCAs, homemakers, home health care, outpatient PT/OT).
Doesn’t the US have bigger ED waiting rooms and wider hospital hallways?
“Can health care quality indicators be transferred between countries?”
M N Marshall, P G Shekelle, E A McGlynn, S Campbell, R H Brook and M O Roland
[compared data from UK and USA--RAND-UCLA]
CONCLUDES: “There are considerable benefits in using work from other settings in developing measures of quality of care. ***However, indicators cannot simply be transferred directly between countries without an intermediate process to allow for variation in professional culture or clinical practice.”
if that’s the case for the UK and USA, imagine trying to discern the “perceived” quality of care between Slovakia and the USA! (i couldn’t find the article from physician’s practice mag.)