Medical Economics February 13, 2024
Hospital watchdog group responds to study on patient deaths in ICU.
Whether in private practice or in hospital, physicians must be advocates for keeping patients safe from errors, injuries, accidents and infections, according to a national watchdog group that ranks hospitals for patient safety.
The Leapfrog Group started in 2000 as a nonprofit analyst that assigns letter grades to hospitals and ambulatory surgical centers based on data publicly available and self-reported data. The organization has 29 various practices hospitals can adopt to reduce diagnostic errors.
Patient safety was at the center of a study published in January 2024. Researchers reported in 2019, 23% of patients transferred to an intensive care unit or who died in hospital experienced a diagnostic error,...
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