This new second edition compares all of the nation’s hospitals by 24 measures of quality in the treatment of heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, and, new to this edition, surgical procedures and pregnancy care. Plus, this second edition is now available in regional volumes, to make locating information about hospitals in your area quicker and easier than ever before.

The Comparative Guide to American Hospitals provides a snapshot profile of each of the nations 4,300+ hospitals. These informative profiles illustrate how the hospital rates in 24 important areas:

• Heart Attack Care measures include aspirin at arrival and discharge, beta blockers at arrival and discharge, use of ACE/ARB inhibitors, and PCI administration and fibrinolytic medication timing.
• Heart Failure Care measures include LVF assessment, use of ACE/ARB inhibitors, discharge instructions and smoking cessation advice.
• Pneumonia Care measures include use of initial antibiotics and pneumococcal vaccine, use of oxygenation and blood culture results, smoking cessation advice, and administration of influenza vaccine.
• Surgical Invention Prevention measures (NEW) include use of preventative antibiotics, and selection of prophalactic antibiotics.
• Pregnancy Care measures (NEW) includes inpatient neonatal mortality, and degree of vaginal lacerations.

Each profile includes the raw percentage for that hospital, the state average, the US average and data on the top hospital. For easy access to contact information, each profile includes the hospitals address, phone and fax numbers, email and web addresses, type and accreditation along with 5 top key administrations. These profiles will allow the user to quickly identify the quality of the hospital and have the necessary information at their fingertips to make contact with that hospital.

Most importantly, The Comparative Guide to American Hospitals provides an easy-to-use Regional State by State Statistical Summary Tables for each of the data elements to allow the user to quickly locate the hospitals with the best level of service. Plus, a new 30-Day Mortality Chart, Glossary of Terms and Regional Hospital Profile Index make this a must-have source. This new, expanded edition will be a must for the reference collection at all public, medical and academic libraries.

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