Healthcare DIVE July 12, 2022
Dive Brief:
- Adverse event rates among hospitalized patients declined significantly from 2010 through 2019 in a large study of medical records for adults admitted for acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia, major surgical procedures and other conditions, according to a JAMA investigation.
- The study used data from the Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System to assess outcomes for 244,542 patients in 3,156 acute care hospitals across the country. It included adverse events such as drug reactions, hospital-acquired infections, problems after a procedure and general issues such as pressure ulcers and falls.
- Although the study found improving trends for adverse events, other researchers, in an editorial published simultaneously in JAMA, said the new report “is an unfortunate reminder that adverse events...
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