On Dec. 30, 2009, the French daily official publication (Journal Officiel) regarding law stated that French hospitals must make readily available to the public (ie as in on the institution's web site ) 10 quality indicators as follows, demonstrating yet again, the relation between the quality of care and the availability of information.
ICALIN (fight against hospital infections), ICSHA (consumption of hydro-alcoholic products), SURVISO + (surveillance of infection in O.R.); ICATB (proper use of antibiotics); a composite score of the above
+ 5 scores from the patient file: management of the patient file, time required to receive post-hospitalization letter (which in Denmark would be instantaneous), record of pain evaluation, nutritional prevention, anesthesia file.
It is interesting to note that this request does not come from a Twitter-like movement on the ground, but more from traditional lobbying, by patient groups and efforts of the French Health Authority (HAS). Hopefully it will be picked up and amplified by the tweeters.
Will hospitals be able to comply with this request? Please see the following post which discusses Denise Silber's exclusive new study of hospital web sites...The short answer is "unlikely". If the information is just "thrown up there" on sites that are already not well-organized, the information will not really be accessible.
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