Dashboards and report cards

Report Cards for Manholes

We present a manhole profiling tool, developed as part of the Columbia/Con Edison machine learning project on manhole event prediction, and discuss its role in evaluating our machine learning model in three important ways: elimination of outliers, elimination of falsely predictive features, and assessment of the quality of the model. The model produces a ranked list of tens of thousands of manh...

Quality report cards and nursing home quality.

PURPOSE This study examined the potential role that publicly disseminated quality report cards can play in improving quality of care in nursing homes. DESIGN AND METHODS We review the literature and the experience gained over the last two decades with report cards for hospitals, physicians, and health plans, and consider the issues that are of particular importance in the context of nursing h...

Economics of Payment Cards: A Status Report

In this article, we survey the recent theoretical literature on payment cards and study their implications for public policy. Payment card networks have faced regulatory scrutiny in several countries regarding the setting of various fees including interchange fees—fees paid by the merchant’s financial institution to the cardholder’s financial institution. In addition, other common payment pract...

Nursing dashboards - measuring quality

Performance report cards increase adenoma detection rate

BACKGROUND AND STUDY AIMS  Adenoma detection rate (ADR) is an important measure of colonoscopy quality, as are polyp, advanced ADR, and adenocarcinoma detection rates. We investigated whether performance report cards improved these outcome measures. PATIENTS AND METHODS  Endoscopists were given report cards comparing their detection rates to the institutional mean on an annual basis. Detectio...