Preventable hospital patient safety events declined over past decade, Leapfrog Group says

Healthcare DIVE November 16, 2022
Hailey Mensik

Dive Brief:

• Hospitals have made progress in reducing preventable errors, accidents and injuries over the past decade, according to the Leapfrog Group’s fall 2022 hospital safety grades released Wednesday.
• Incidents of falls and trauma and of objects unintentionally left in a body after surgery decreased by about 25% since 2012, according to Leapfrog.
• In this year’s fall rankings, 30% of hospitals earned an A grade, 28% earned a B, 36% earned a C, 6% earned a D and 1% earned an F.

Dive Insight:

This year marks the 10th in which Leapfrog has assigned letter grades to nearly 3,000 hospitals, using measures to determine how well they protect patients from preventable safety incidents.

“For a long time,...

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