The Census Bureau has just published the results from its new alternative measure of poverty, called the Supplemental Poverty Measure, and they differ notably from the poverty rates shown by the ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on Tuesday added new measures to its compare websites for inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term hospital stays. CMS' compare sites list the ...

With the public release of Hospital Compare data for more than 4200 hospitals in April 2005, national efforts to report hospital quality to the public passed a major milestone. Our findings indicate ...

To compare energy expenditure (EE) measured by doubly labeled water (DLW) with other measures, both physical and based on subjective questionnaires. EE was assessed by DLW (validated using ...

With the proliferation of public quality reporting, Health & Human Services' Hospital Compare website is causing hospitals and health systems to hone in on new improvement targets, such as the patient ...

In another move that strengthens CMS positioning itself as a champion of better quality care, CMS has added outpatient indicators to hospital performance measurements listed on its Hospital Compare ...

Motivation: Frequently, comparing samples from two populations is of interest. For example, is the average height in the US different from that in China? If they are different, how different? Goal: In ...

Vienna Yearbook of Population Research, Vol. 19, Special issue on Demographic aspects of human wellbeing (2021), pp. 67-90 (26 pages) Subjective well-being (SWB) is an overall evaluation of the ...

Subscribe for analysis that goes beyond the noise. The NYT ran a piece showing the decline in earmarks in spending bills over the last three years. The article shows the dollar value of earmarks fell ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We compare two widely publicized measures of state electoral integrity in the United States: the Electoral Integrity Project’s 2016 U.S.