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Brian Vastag

JAMA. 2003;289:290.

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Hospitals and the federal government have launched an initiative to provide consumers with key quality information. The voluntary program will start in three pilot states and include 10 measures of quality.

The American Hospital Association, Association of American Medical Colleges, Federation of American Hospitals, Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and National Quality Forum will work with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to implement the program. Reports from participating hospitals will be posted on a DHHS Web site.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) will develop a standard patient questionnaire and other measures for the program, which will begin this year in Maryland, New York, and Arizona.

The initial quality measures, announced by DHHS in a mid-December press release, are listed below.

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