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