Becker's Healthcare November 7, 2023
While new data from The Leapfrog Group’s fall safety grades shows hospitals have made progress in reversing a major spike in healthcare-associated infections that occurred during the pandemic, data indicates now is not the time to rest on the laurels of that progress.
From late 2021 into 2022 — the data collection period for Leapfrog’s spring safety grade cycle earlier this year — central line-associated bloodstream infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus all reached a five-year high. Hospitals have regained that lost ground, the latest trends from throughout 2022 show.
However, it is worth underlining that only 19% of hospitals improved performance in all three of those infection measures, Missy Danforth, vice president of healthcare...
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