Measuring the Quality of Care at the Blood and Marrow Transplant Program

The quality of care given to patients at the Cedars-Sinai Blood and Marrow Transplant Program is continually monitored and reported to the public.

Among the measures of quality care reported are:

• The type and volume of blood and marrow transplants performed
• The length of stay in the hospital required following a blood and marrow transplant
• Survival rates for autologous transplants
• Survival rates for high-risk allogenic transplants
• Survival rates for intermediate and low-risk allogenic transplants

Other measures of the quality of care given to patients at Cedars-Sinai are measures on a hospital-wide basis.  These include:

• Nursing excellence
• Preventing hospital-acquired infections
• Surgical care, including infection prevention and blood clot prevention
• Consumer perceptions of Cedars-Sinai
• Patient satisfaction