Quality statistics are what they are...a measure of whatever you’re looking at, regardless of whether what you’re looking at has any relevance to patient care or outcomes.
If you think that what the government says we have to ‘measure’ has a basis in medical science, think again. The government picks and chooses things based on whether they think hospitals can be held accountable for shortfalls to cut payments...like infections..which they say are ‘100% preventable’ which is nonsense.
I am amazed that there are people supposedly on the same side of the fence politically as me, who say that they trust the same government to be looking out for their best interests in health care while they rail about government lying about countless other issues and look at a multitude of evidence where the government acts in a manner of self-preservation. This health care stuff is just an act, designed to limit government costs...NONE of it improves patient care.
I respectfully disagree.
But, every time I brought quality control to an operation I heard about every one in a thousand exception, and how the statistics did not represent “THEIR” workplace.
As conservatives, we want the government to control expenses and cut down on incompetence. But when they try to DI it you cry.
How would you establish controls to make sure the Medicare taxes you have been paying for fifty years are spent on improved patient outcomes.