Becker's Healthcare May 10, 2023
Recent reports on healthcare-associated infections and hospital performance might give the impression that hospitals have “taken their foot off the gas” on patient safety. “This couldn’t be further from the truth,” the American Hospital Association’s senior director of quality and patient safety policy wrote in a May 9 blog post.
The AHA’s Akin Demehin underscored hospitals’ progress in reducing HAIs between 2015 and 2019, including a 31 percent reduction in central line-associated bloodstream infections. Now, data released as part of The Leapfrog Group’s annual hospital rankings shows that positive progress was reversed in 2021 into 2022, with a significant rise in HAIs.
The numerous demands of the COVID-19 pandemic undoubtedly hindered hospitals’ ability to keep up with standard best practices...
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