AHRQ Patient Safety Network: Finding and Preventing Patient Safety Incidents.

AHRQ Patient Safety Network

BOOK/REPORT

Book/Report

Finding and Preventing Patient Safety Incidents.

Golden, CO: HealthGrades, Inc.; June 9, 2014.

Finding and Preventing Patient Safety Incidents.

Golden, CO: HealthGrades, Inc.; June 9, 2014.

Analyzing Medicare data from 2010 through 2012, this report discusses hospital efforts to prevent patient harm and estimates that nearly 267,000 preventable patient safety events such as pressure ulcers andcatheter-related bloodstream infections occurred during this period. In 2014, 381 hospitals received the Healthgrades Patient Safety Excellence Award.

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