Cost of Care

Reducing Hospital Acquired Conditions Saved $28B in 5 Years

February 6, 2017 3:03 pm

Hospitals’ quality and safety efforts are paying off. The rate of hospital-acquired conditions (HACs) declined 21 percent from 2010 to 2015, according to a national scorecard from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Specifically, hospitals reported 3.1 million fewer HACs during this five-year period.

The scorecard suggests that 42 percent of this reduction is from adverse drug events, 23 percent from pressure ulcers, and 15 percent from catheter-associated urinary tract infections.

AHRQ estimates that reducing HACs during this five-year period saved nearly 125,000 patient lives as well as approximately $28 billion in healthcare costs.

 

 

 

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