HHS and insurers are starting to not pay for the added cost of things that simply should never happen in hospital stays. The checklist article is bizzare. I know of many cases where deliberate steps are being taken to reduce the incidence of infections and other preventable complications, and the statistics are collected and used to prove those steps are effective.
I think the article is an abberation in what I'm seeing happen all over the place, in the US and elsewhere.
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Date: 2008-02-16 05:19 am (UTC)Also see http://www.leapfroggroup.org/for_hospitals/leapfrog_hospital_quality_and_safety_survey_copy/never_events
HHS and insurers are starting to not pay for the added cost of things that simply should never happen in hospital stays. The checklist article is bizzare. I know of many cases where deliberate steps are being taken to reduce the incidence of infections and other preventable complications, and the statistics are collected and used to prove those steps are effective.
I think the article is an abberation in what I'm seeing happen all over the place, in the US and elsewhere.