Reporting hospital performance - a balancing act between accountability and quality improvement

<p dir="ltr">Seddon M. E. (2012). Reporting hospital performance--a balancing act between accountability and quality improvement. <i>The New Zealand medical journal</i>, <i>125</i>(1366), 5–8.</p><p dir="ltr"><a href="https://nzmj.org.nz/media/pages/journal/vol-125-no-1366/reporting-hospital-performancea-balancing-act-between-accountability-and-quality-improvement/9621aa18a9-1696475461/reporting-hospital-performancea-balancing-act-between-accountability-and-quality-improvement.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">Link to full text</a></p><p dir="ltr">In this issue of the Journal Chaudhry et al present the case for New Zealand to “join the ranks of health systems that embrace public reporting of quality data in the spirit of full and open transparency, benchmarking and continual improvement.” A fine aim, but is it as simple as following the US and UK lead, and will it improve healthcare services?</p>