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Solucient's 100 Top Hospitals Program |
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Public Reporting: Communicating Value in Consumer-Friendly Terms |
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About The Thomson Corporation and Solucient |
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100 Top Benchmark Hospitals |
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Winners in the Class of 2006 |
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Best of the 100 Top Benchmark Hospitals |
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Building the Database of Hospitals |
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Classifying Hospitals into Comparison Groups |
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Scoring Hospitals on Weighted Performance Measures |
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Performance Measures Used in the 2006 100 Top Hospitals Study |
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Determining the 100 Top Performers |
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The 100 Top Hospitals---Providing Value to the Community |
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HCAHPS Preview Provides Intriguing First Look at Patient Perception versus Hospital Performance |
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The 100 Top Hospitals Raise Performance Standards over Five Years |
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The 2006 Solucient 100 Top Hospitals |
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100 Top Benchmark Hispitals, 1993-2006 |
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| Appendix A. Distribution of National Benchmark Hospitals by State And Region |
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| Appendix B. States Included In Each Census Region |
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| Appendix C. Methodology Details |
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| References |
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