Becker's Healthcare March 14, 2025
A March 11 report from the Peterson Center on Healthcare and KFF tracks the performance of healthcare systems over the last few decades.
Here are 45 statistics to know:
Treatment outcomes
The Peterson-KFF Health System Tracker measured treatment-related quality of care by analyzing treatable mortality, in-hospital mortality and maternal mortality. Among the findings:
- Treatable deaths, defined as those with preventive or healthcare interventions, have remained relatively steady in the U.S. since 2010, with 96 deaths per 100,000 people in 2010, and 99 per 100,000 in 2021.
- The in-hospital mortality rate hovered between 2.0% and 2.5% of discharges from 1991 to 2019. In 2020, the rate rose to 3.1%.
- As access to care dwindled amid the COVID-19...
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