4sight Health December 6, 2023
Better check the byline on this blog post. It’s about patient safety improving at hospitals.
Yes, I’m the author. I also try not to be a hypocrite. If I write about patient safety dropping hospitals, like I did in this monthly column, “Dead Patient Walking,” then I feel compelled to write about it when it gets better like it did according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s latest annual report on hospital infection rates.
The agency’s 2022 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Progress Report, released Dec. 1, is based on hospital infection data self-reported to the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network by nearly 4,000 hospitals, most of them general acute-care inpatient facilities.
The annual report looks at...
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