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The impact of Public Reporting on clinical outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Health Services Research, July 2016
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Title
The impact of Public Reporting on clinical outcomes: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Published in
BMC Health Services Research, July 2016
DOI 10.1186/s12913-016-1543-y
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Authors

Paolo Campanella, Vladimir Vukovic, Paolo Parente, Adela Sulejmani, Walter Ricciardi, Maria Lucia Specchia

Abstract

To assess both qualitatively and quantitatively the impact of Public Reporting (PR) on clinical outcomes, we carried out a systematic review of published studies on this topic. Pubmed, Web of Science and SCOPUS databases were searched to identify studies published from 1991 to 2014 that investigated the relationship between PR and clinical outcomes. Studies were considered eligible if they investigated the relationship between PR and clinical outcomes and comprehensively described the PR mechanism and the study design adopted. Among the clinical outcomes identified, meta-analysis was performed for overall mortality rate which quantitative data were exhaustively reported in a sufficient number of studies. Two reviewers conducted all data extraction independently and disagreements were resolved through discussion. The same reviewers evaluated also the quality of the studies using a GRADE approach. Twenty-seven studies were included. Mainly, the effect of PR on clinical outcomes was positive. Meta-analysis regarding overall mortality included, in a context of high heterogeneity, 10 studies with a total of 1,840,401 experimental events and 3,670,446 control events and resulted in a RR of 0.85 (95 % CI, 0.79-0.92). The introduction of PR programs at different levels of the healthcare sector is a challenging but rewarding public health strategy. Existing research covering different clinical outcomes supports the idea that PR could, in fact, stimulate providers to improve healthcare quality.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Italy 1 <1%
Unknown 108 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 19 17%
Other 15 14%
Researcher 15 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 10 9%
Student > Bachelor 7 6%
Other 19 17%
Unknown 24 22%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 33 30%
Nursing and Health Professions 12 11%
Social Sciences 8 7%
Economics, Econometrics and Finance 7 6%
Business, Management and Accounting 5 5%
Other 8 7%
Unknown 36 33%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 48. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 June 2021.
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#888,570
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#9
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