Peter K. Lindenauer

TL;DR: Hospitals engaged in both public reporting and pay for performance achieved modestly greater improvements in quality than did hospitals engaged only in public reporting.

TL;DR: Perioperative beta-blocker therapy is associated with a reduced risk of in-hospital death among high-risk, but not low- risk, patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery and patient safety may be enhanced by increasing the use of Beta-blockers in high- risk patients.

TL;DR: The increase in the number of hospitalizations for severe sepsis coupled with declining in-hospital mortality and declining geometric mean cost per case may reflect improvements in care or increases in discharges to skilled nursing facilities; however, these findings more likely represent changes in documentation and hospital coding practices that could bias efforts to conduct national surveillance.

TL;DR: Treatment with lipid-lowering agents may reduce risk of death following major noncardiac surgery and clinical trials are required to confirm this observation.

TL;DR: Perioperative beta-blocker therapy is associated with a reduced risk of in-hospital death among high- risk, but not low-risk, patients undergoing major noncardiac surgery and patient safety may be enhanced by increasing the use of beta- blockers in high-risk patients.