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study, which compares hospitals on complication and death rates, Hibbard is assessing how both consumers and hospitals react when hospital performance is made public. Do consumers change their views about hospital quality based on this information? Do hospitals try to improve their care? Such public reporting on health care quality is another example of engaging consumers as part of the solution to health care dilemmas, she says.

Hibbard is involved in a number of national efforts to improve the quality of care within health care delivery systems and serves on advisory boards to the National Health Care Quality Forum, the Joint Commission for the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations and the Oregon Commission for Patient Safety.

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Contact: Pauline Austin
paustin@uoregon.edu
541-346-3129
University of Oregon
3-Dec-2004

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