HealthGrades

Study shows medical-errors gap widens between best and worst hospitals

Published in Hospital Law Weekly, June 2nd, 2005

Patient safety incidents at America's hospitals increased slightly, but the nation's safest hospitals grew even safer, resulting in a wider gap in patient safety incident rates among the nation's best and worst hospitals, according to a new study of nearly 39 million patient records released by HealthGrades.

The second annual HealthGrades patient safety in American hospitals study finds that 1.18 million patient safety incidents occurred among Medicare hospitalizations in the years 2001, 2002 and 2003, with the cost to Medicare approaching $3 billion annually. That compares with 1.14 million incidents in the 3 years beginning with 2000.

The study...

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Source: Hospital Law Weekly (2005-06-02)

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