AHRQ analysis finds hospital-acquired conditions declined by nearly 1 million – HIINs are significant contributor
Posted on: 2/6/19
New data released recently by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) show reductions in hospital-acquired conditions such as adverse drug events and healthcare-associated infections helped prevent 20,500 hospital deaths and save $7.7 billion in health care costs from 2014 to 2017. These are the conditions that many Oklahoma hospitals have focused on through involvement in the Hospital Improvement Innovation Network (HIIN).
AHRQ’s preliminary analysis estimates that hospital-acquired conditions were reduced by 910,000 from 2014 to 2017. The estimated rate of hospital-acquired conditions dropped 13 percent; from 99 per 1,000 acute care discharges to 86 per 1,000 during the same timeframe. For more,
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(LaWanna Halstead)