MedPage Today August 4, 2022
— CMS will publish scorecard of avoidable patient harm after all
Patient safety advocates and organizations representing large purchasers of employee health plans rejoiced this week after CMS reversed its proposal in May to suppress a composite score of key hospital safety metrics.
The composite score, called the PSI 90, includes the rates of 10 preventable and potentially lethal in-hospital harms such as pressure ulcers, falls resulting in a hip fracture, postoperative respiratory failure, and postoperative sepsis.
In its proposed rule issued in May, CMS argued that hospitals were struggling with multiple pressures such as staffing shortages during COVID-19, and should get a break from being held accountable for their performance on these measures while they were under such duress.
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