HealthGrades - Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study

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To identify the patient safety incident rates for every hospital in the country, HealthGrades applied AHRQ’s Patient Safety Indicator methodology1 to three years of Medicare data (2001-2003).

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 three years beginning with 2000.