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Infections, complications and safety breaches: why patients need better data on how hospitals compare

  • Written by: Stephen Duckett, Director, Health Program, Grattan Institute
imageInformation on patients' experiences with their hospital care is often not reported back to public hospitals at unit or ward level.Shutterstock/PongMoji

Australia’s health system is an information industry – it is awash with data. Tragically, though, the data is not well collated, not put into the hands of the people responsible for...

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