[catnipman]

CMS criteria for rating hospitals is utter nonsense and almost nothing to do with a hospital’s ability to deliver quality health care.

it’s a bunch of stupid metrics like every staff member washing their hands each time they enter a room, and they’re the kind of things that are easy to game by simply focusing on the metrics and pretty much ignoring common sense care ...

[neverevergiveup]

Yep. Absolutely. But the ‘outcomes analysis people’, including many physicians who aren’t respected as physicians by other physicians, are the ones directing health care these days.

[mewzilla]

it’s a bunch of stupid metrics like every staff member washing their hands each time they enter a room,

Ever acquired a nosocomial infection?

That's not a stupid metric.