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.
• 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

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