Becker's Healthcare September 18, 2024
The quarterly “ASC Quality Collaboration Report” highlights safety benchmarks at ASCs nationwide, tracking patient safety metrics such as fall rates, burn rates and more.
For the fourth quarter of 2024, the report collected data from 2,197 ASCs that submitted clinical-quality data reflecting patient admissions from Jan. 1 through March 31.
Here are nine statistics to know about patient safety incidents in the ASC setting from the first quarter of 2024:
1. In Q1, the ASC patient fall rate was 0.149 for every 1,000 admissions, up from 0.141 in the previous quarter.
2. The Q1 patient burn rate hit 0.017 per every 1,000 admissions, up from 0.014.
3. For every 1,000 admissions in Q1, 0.788 were...
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