TY  - JOUR
T1  - QUality, transparency, and the us government
AU  - Brook RH
Y1  - 2009/04/01
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2009.427
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 1377
EP  - 1378
VL  - 301
IS  - 13
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.427
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.427
ER  -