Public Reporting of Cardiac Outcomes for Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Systematic Review of the Evidence.

CONCLUSIONS: Although public reporting may have had intentions of improving care, there is strong evidence that this policy did not result in more timely PCIs or improved mortality of patients with AMI. In fact, public reporting resulted in unintended consequences of not providing care for the most vulnerable patients in fear of an adverse outcome.
PMID: 30211816 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing - September 11, 2018 Category: Nursing Authors: de Cordova PB, Johansen ML, Riman KA, Rogowski J Tags: J Cardiovasc Nurs Source Type: research