Modern Healthcare November 4, 2019
While the number of patients with injuries or infections in Michigan declined over an eight-year period, a new study found it wasn’t because of the penalty-driven Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program.
The study, published Monday in Health Affairs, found the rate of some hospital-acquired conditions dropped from 61.7 per 1,000 discharges before the program was announced in 2013 to 58.7 after the program was announced. However, the pace of the decline remained steady prior to and after the program was announced.
“The trends in hospital-acquired condition reduction didn’t change after the program started,” said Andrew Ryan, an author of the study and director of the Center for Evaluating Health Reform at the University of Michigan. “Patient safety continued to get better...
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