Healthcare Finance News November 16, 2022
The overall trend over the past decade has been for patient safety to improve, with progress made on falls and MRSA infections.
The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit watchdog organization that advocates for patient safety in hospitals, has released the fall 2022 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade results, showing an overall reduction in never events and progress on stemming healthcare-associated infections.
Measures used in the Hospital Safety Grade have changed over time, but measures that could be reliably tracked over the past decade show a consistent pattern of better performance. For five of the outcome measures that can be tracked, these improvements saved an estimated more than 16,000 lives over the 10-year period, Leapfrog’s numbers showed.
Measures that have shown significant...
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