Did Hospital Engagement Networks Actually Improve Care?

To the Editor: The Partnership for Patients model test (PfP), discussed in a Perspective article by Pronovost and Jha (Aug. 21 issue), 1 is a large-scale quality-improvement program designed to make hospital care safer, more reliable, and less costly by engaging the nation's hospitals in work to reduce 30-day all-cause readmissions and preventable all-cause harm. We are writing to respond to several points made in the article. First, the test model, like all models from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center, does have an independent evaluation. The first evaluation report is posted publicly. 2 , 3 Second, the evaluation . . .