Patient Engagement July 13, 2022
In the 10 years preceding the COVID-19 outbreak, the US healthcare industry saw patient safety improvements that show promise for post-pandemic recovery.
Adverse patient safety events went down in the decade before the COVID-19 pandemic broke out across the United States, marking a key improvement in the overall patient experience that can be replicable in years to come, researchers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) wrote in JAMA.
The assessment of some 245,000 patients in over 3,100 hospitals between 2010 and 2019 showed significant patient safety improvements for those experiencing acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia, and major surgical procedures, the researchers wrote. This is great news, they added, even amid a backdrop of patient safety...
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