Recently Released: "Feds Post Database of Hospital Errors"
From the Denver Business Journal:
To the dismay of the American Hospital Association, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released an exhaustive list of medical errors occurring at the nation’s 4,700 hospitals.
The CMS database of eight categories of “hospital-acquired conditions” includes leaving a foreign object in the body after surgery, urinary tract infections caused by a catheter, and pressure sores. It compares each error to the national rate for the event in question.
The information is offered online through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ “Hospital Compare” website.
Direct to Hospital Compare Database
See Also Hospital Acquired Conditions (via HHS Glossary)
See Also: Database Info and Full Database File to Download
Source: Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services/HHS
Filed under: News
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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