Advisory Board November 19, 2024
The Leapfrog Group last week named its fall 2024 Hospital Safety Grades, evaluating almost 3,000 hospitals “on their ability to prevent medical errors, accidents and infections.”
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Methodology
Leapfrog evaluates almost 3,000 general acute care hospitals across the United States twice a year. A panel of patient safety experts selects appropriate measures and develops a scoring methodology.
The expert panel selected 22 evidence-based measures of patient safety, including CMS Medicare PSI 90 Patient Safety and Adverse Events composite. The weight of each measure was based on evidence, opportunity for improvement, and impact.
The Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade placed each measure into one of two domains:
1. Process/structural measures, which...
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