Health Care Master Research Guide

Aggregate hospital data derived from the AHA Annual Survey and is the definitive source when doing trend analysis with data by bed size category , U.S. Census Divisions, States, and Metropolitan Statistical Areas (CBSAs).

From the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this outstanding national directory guides the user to statistics regarding the quality of hospitals, doctors, and other factors by state.

Comparisons of hospitals by mortality, cost, patient safety, number of procedures, pediatric measures, prevention, infections, and nursing sensitive measures. Comparisons include pressure ulcers, post-surgical blood clots, and bloodstream infections (sepsis). Nursing sensitive measures include practice environment scale, voluntary turnover, skill mix, nursing care hours per patient day, falls and falls with injuries, and nursing education (percentage BSNs, associate degrees, etc. at each hospital) .

Hospitals, Health plans, and physicians are rated.

Ratings of individual doctors by patients.

Report by Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. Individual hospitals and their infection rates with different procedures (hip replacement, hysterectomy, etc.) are listed.

Reports from the Colorado Hospital Association.

Click "Nursing Sensitive Measures" on tan bar. The measures include practice environment scale, voluntary turnover, skill mix, nursing care hours per patient day, falls and falls with injuries, and nursing education (percentage BSNs, associate degrees, etc. at each hospital) .

Patients rate their doctors.

Click "Nursing Sensitive Measures" on tan bar. The measures include practice environment scale, voluntary turnover, skill mix, nursing care hours per patient day, falls and falls with injuries, and nursing education (percentage BSNs, associate degrees, etc. at each hospital) .