Healthcare Innovation November 12, 2021
Fall 2021 safety grades continue to show significant variation in patient safety performance across U.S. hospitals
The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit national watchdog organization that assigns a letter grade to U.S. hospitals based on how well they prevent medical errors, accidents, injuries, and infections that kill or harm patients, has added several new measures, including post-operative sepsis.
The fall 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade represents the largest set of hospitals ever graded with grades assigned to 2,901 facilities. The Safety Grades reflect performance on more than 30 evidence-based measures of patient safety, including for the first time, post-operative sepsis, blood leakage, and kidney injury.
Some highlights from the report:
- Thirty-two percent of hospitals received an “A,” 26 percent received...
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