HCPro, JustCoding Inpatient - 2016 Issue 32 (August)

Healthcare News: Study finds variation in coding limits ability to count safety events

August 23rd, 2016

A study conducted by Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality finds that common measures used by government agencies and public rankings to rate the safety of hospitals, such as the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s patient safety indicators, and hospital-acquired conditions, do not accurately capture the quality of care provided.

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