In a letter to the hospital administrator, federal officials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services said that "repeated certification surveys and complaint investigations have identified serious health and safety violations and documented the hospital's inability to comply with these federal standards".
To achieve NCQA certification, a survey vendor must demonstrate prior experience in administering health status surveys with particular expertise in administering either the SF-36 or SF-12, undergo intense scrutiny of their internal operations, complete an intensive two day training program, and submit a comprehensive quality assurance plan against which their performance was judged [ 1].
Top institutions in Shenzhen that have received a Grade A building design certification were surveyed through a questionnaire.
We studied the predicted and simulated plug load energy consumption using data submitted to the U.S. Green Building Council for LEED certification, and surveyed 92 energy modelers on their simulation techniques.
To assess nursing home staffing data reported in the Online Survey Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) system database for research and policy.
Hospital bed size was determined from the Online Survey, Certification and Reporting (OSCAR) data network maintained by the CMS.
We supplemented confounder information derived from claims data with clinical assessment data (Minimum Data Set) and potential indicators of nursing home quality (Online Survey Certification and Reporting).
28 We obtained characteristics of nursing homes, which could be correlated with care processes and risk of adverse health outcomes, from the Online Survey Certification and Reporting system.
We used this eligibility definition because these are the nursing homes included in the On-line Survey, Certification, and Reporting (OSCAR) system data, which was used to identify the mailing address of these facilities.
North Carolina State Health Plan claims data from 944 500 individuals enrolled between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2010, supplemented with data from the Area Resource File and Online Survey, Certification and Reporting data network.
The results of the studies are mixed and the reliability and validity of the data, particularly those studies using OSCAR data (Online Survey, Certification and Reporting), may be questioned [ 11, 15- 17].
