Table 2. Indicators of Increased Attention/Knowledge of Quality Among Hospital's Senior Management and Staff.
| Quality Attention Indicator | Responding Yes | ||||
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| Senior Executives | QI Directors | QI Directors | |||
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| Large, JCAHO Accredited | Small, Non-JCAHO Accredited | Others | |||
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| More Frequent Internal Requests for Information about Quality Performance1 | 85.8 | 82.2 | 87.2 | 70.3 | 83.7 |
| Hospital Management with More Frequent Requests | |||||
| Medical Staff Leadership1 | 88.2 | 88.1 | 91.9 | 75.7 | 89.5 |
| Other Physicians1 | 77.6 | 74.5 | 82.6 | 56.7 | 75.8 |
| Board Members1 | 84.9 | 81.0 | 84.7 | 69.0 | 82.3 |
| Senior Executives1 | 96.8 | 98.2 | 100.0 | 91.4 | 99.1 |
| More Discussion of Quality Performance in Hospital's Strategic Planning Process | 93.6 | 91.2 | 89.6 | 90.1 | 91.9 |
| Heightened Attention to Improving Quality by a Larger Group of Hospital Staff | 96.5 | 95.8 | 93.4 | 94.5 | 96.8 |
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Chi-square test for different responses among the hospital subgroups (large, JCAHO accredited; small, non-JCAHO accredited; and other hospitals) are statistically significantly at the 95 percent confidence level.
NOTES: As a percent of quality improvement (QI) directors (93 percent) and senior executives (87 percent) who reported increased hospital leadership attention to quality over the past 2 years. JCAHO is Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations.
SOURCE: Laschober, M., Maxfield, M., Felt-Lisk, S., Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., and Miranda, D., Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2005.