Becker's Healthcare June 7, 2023
Racial disparities in rates of adverse events persist even at the top-rated hospitals for safety, a new report from The Leapfrog Group shows.
The Leapfrog Group assignsletter grades to nearly 3,000 acute care general hospitals across the U.S. every fall and spring. The safety grades are recognized for being the only hospital ratings program solely based on hospitals’ ability to protect patients from preventable errors, accidents, injuries and infections.
However, “little is known about the association between Hospital Safety Grades and the delivery of safe care specific to a patient’s racial-ethnic background or insurance,” researchers from Leapfrog and the Urban Institute said in the report published June 7. “Further, no evidence indicates whether safer overall care is associated...
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