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...really see this as a sea change in the way we think about health care and health-care quality," says Ashish Jha, assistant professor of health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health and lead author on the NEJM paper that analyzed the survey data. "For a $2.1 trillion health-care system, it's shocking we don't pay more attention to what patients think...
...Jha's analysis of the data found that patients liked not-for-profit hospitals more, on average, than for-profit hospitals. Institutions with more nurses per patient were also more popular than those with fewer. And, on the whole, the hospitals that scored better according to the survey were also those that performed better on more traditional measures of clinical performance, such as providing the appropriate emergency treatment for heart attack or correctly following procedures designed to reduce risk of medical error...
...survey data this year (on average, hospitals that did report patient-survey results also scored better on traditional quality measures), consumers can expect a more complete data set next year. Soon, reporting patient-perception data, like reporting of other hospital-performance data, will be linked to Medicare funding, Jha says...
...civilian nuclear deal with the U.S. So unshakable is his commitment to the agreement, which would give India access to U.S. technology to help slake India's soaring demand for electricity, that Singh has bet his political future on it. "It's completely personal for him," says Prem Shankar Jha, a columnist for New Delhi's Outlook magazine. "The Prime Minister is determined to do this...
...Indian economy over the past few years has created a group of companies that can suddenly buy assets globally. "Internationally they are very competitive and thanks to the downturn in places like the U.S. there are assets that are now available at much lower valuations," says PWC's Jha. "The next step is inevitably overseas." With Reporting by Jyoti Thottam/New Delhi