RT Journal
A1 Brook RH
T1 QUality, transparency, and the us government
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2009
FD April 1
VO 301
IS 13
SP 1377
OP 1378
DO 10.1001/jama.2009.427
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.427
AB 
In 2001, the government of California, responding to calls to improve quality of care, decided to produce routinely available statewide reports on mortality following isolated coronary artery bypass surgery, by hospital and physician.1 The outcome-reporting program is housed in the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development. I was asked to chair the committee that oversees the production of these reports, the purpose of which is to increase public and professional knowledge about this procedure.