Association between hospital-reported Leapfrog Safe Practices Scores and inpatient mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Context

The Leapfrog Hospital Survey allows hospitals to self-report the steps they have taken toward implementing the Safe Practices for Better Healthcare endorsed by the National Quality Forum. The Leapfrog Group currently ranks hospital performance on the safe practices initiative by quartiles and presents this information to the public on its Web site. It is unknown how well a hospital's resulting Safe Practices Score (SPS) correlates with outcomes such as inpatient mortality.

Objective

To determine the relationship between hospitals' SPSs and risk-adjusted inpatient mortality rates.

Design, setting, and participants

Observational analysis of discharge data for all urban US hospitals completing the 2006 safe practices initiative and identifiable in the Nationwide

SUBMITTER: Kernisan LP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2851624 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature