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Welcome to the Practitioner Guide!

Welcome doctors and health care providers. Use this guide to help you compare the performance of hospitals in Maryland. This guide will help you:

  • Learn how well a hospital is performing and where it could improve. Go to Find a Hospital.
  • Understand the best practices for heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia.
  • Review how often hospitals perform the best practices to improve quality of care. Go to Find a Quality Measure.
  • Review how patients rate your hospital and other hospitals in the state based on the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (H-CAHPS) survey. Go to Patient Experience Measures.
  • Review your hospital's performance and other hospitals' performance in preventing central line-associated bloodstream infections in ICUs and NICUs. Go to Healthcare-Associated Infections.
  • (New!)Review hospital performance in preventing surgical site infections for hip replacement, knee replacement and CABG surgery. Go to Healthcare-Associated Infections.
  • Find information for educating patients.

This guide ONLY covers conditions that are widely treated at hospitals in the state. The conditions are grouped by the following care topics:

Heart Conditions
Lung Conditions
Surgeries
Other Conditions
Maternity Care
Newborn Care

 

 

Comparison Reports
Find a Hospital
Find a Medical Condition
Find a Quality Measure
Find a Patient Experience Measure
Healthcare-Associated Infections