A New Tool Appears for Rating Hospitals

We are trying to templatize healthcare and it's not the simple. Perhaps I'm old school and have a father-in-law that practiced medicine into his sixties, he is now in his eighties.

I concur that these surveys are a snapshot of fulfilling a checklist of services and tasks. I am also very concerned that with this push to rank everything we do not have an appropriate way to weigh degree of difficulty. An appendectomy may be routine, unless the patient is overweight, or other factors that may the procedure less than routine. How do we account for new procedures in difficult circumstances.

No some things we can make simple like tax forms, others like rating healthcare, we can't and I'd even question if we should.

Albert Maruggi of MN 4:55PM March 15, 2009