Healthcare Finance News February 27, 2020
The good news is that a higher percentage of hospitals are meeting Leapfrog’s minimum volume standards in 2019 than 2018.
The majority of hospitals are still electively performing high-risk procedures without the adequate, ongoing experience to do so, highlighting persistent deficiencies in meeting surgical safety standards, according to a new survey from the Leapfrog Group.
The independent, national healthcare watchdog organization has released Safety In Numbers: Hospital Performance on Leapfrog’s Surgical Volume Standard Based on Results of the 2019 Leapfrog Hospital Survey, which analyzes whether hospitals are performing a sufficient volume of high-risk surgeries to safely do so, and whether the hospital grants privileges only to surgeons meeting the Leapfrog minimum volume standard.
The report also records whether hospitals actively...
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