PRIVATE HOSPITAL EQUITY: Adverse Events Rise?

By Staff Reporters

DEFINITION: Adverse events are medical errors that healthcare facilities could and should have avoided. The National Quality Forum (NQF) defines these errors, which are also called serious reportable events. There are 29 adverse events listed as reportable errors. The events may result in patient death or serious disability. The department manages aggregate data on adverse events and posts quarterly reports on this website.

Cite: https://www.r2library.com/Resource

NEVER EVENTS: https://medicalexecutivepost.com/2007/12/20/new-never-events-policy/

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A hospital’s acquisition by a private equity firm is linked to a rise in adverse events despite the pool of lower-risk patients they tend to admit, according to a Medicare Part A claims analysis just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association [JAMA], and according to Dave Muoio of Fierce Healthcare.

JAMA: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2813379

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