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From AHRQ

—This technical brief documents current practices for public reporting Web sites that include measures of costs of healthcare providers and assesses if these practices are consumer-centered.

—This guide provides an illustrative menu of public report elements from health care provider performance reports from around the country. The examples highlighted in the Sampler span five core Web pages that constitute a public report and are present on nearly all public reporting Web sites. Additional examples illustrate functional possibilities of Web sites and demonstrate how to facilitate use by consumers and how to engage consumers in their care.

—This guide is a resource for organizations interested in partnering with consumer advocates in their communities to produce and promote consumer reports on quality.

Reports on Best Practices in Public Reporting—These three reports offered guidance to AHRQ's Chartered Value Exchanges on communicating performance data to consumers:

From Other Organizations

—This report provides insights and lessons on the development and dissemination of tools that support people in making decisions about their healthcare. Source: Center for Advancing Health. (A .)

The (IPI)—IPI is a nonprofit that works to improve the quality of care by helping the public make more informed decisions about their healthcare. From 2008–2018, IPI maintained a website for consumers that graded hundreds of online report cards based on their content, timeliness, presentation, ease of use, and decision support. As of 2019, IPI no longer updates the evaluations, reviews, and ratings; however, previous assessments remain available. 

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation: Publications and Research—RWJF carries out research and publishes articles, issues briefs, and reports on several health care quality and public reporting issues..