AXIOS September 12, 2024
Tina Reed

Improved safety practices led 200,000 more patients to survive hospitalization in 2023 and 2024 than they would have four years earlier, per a new analysis on patient safety from the American Hospital Association and Vizient.

Why it matters: The analysis indicates not only a rebound but an improvement in hospital safety after the pandemic, when federal data previously showed a decline.

  • The 2023 and 2024 data “provide a timelier snapshot on hospitals’ performance” compared to other reports that relied on older data, the AHA said in a release.

What they found: Vizient identified 715 general, acute care hospitals for which it had 18 quarters of data from beginning in the fourth quarter of 2019 through the first quarter...

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Topics: Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, Provider, Safety, Survey / Study, Trends
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