Are the CMS Hospital Outpatient Quality Measures Relevant for Rural Hospitals?

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Rural Hospitals 72%
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.) 71%
• Outpatients 41%
• Sample Size 9%
• Data Accuracy 5%
• Medicare 5%
• Administrative Personnel 5%
• Ambulatory Care 5%
• Quality Improvement 4%
• Ambulatory Surgical Procedures 4%
• Organizations 4%
• Hospital Emergency Service 4%
• Inpatients 4%
• Research Personnel 3%

Social Sciences

• outpatient hospital services 100%
• hospital outpatients 22%
• surgery 4%
• expert 2%
• literature 1%
• time 1%