For their study, researchers from Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Johns Hopkins and Harvard assessed 658 hospitals that participated in LeapFrog Group’s 2005 quality and safety survey. They also relied on logistic regression models to determine whether compliance to NQF’s safe practices affected rates of complications, failure to rescue and mortality.
Results showed of the 658 hospitals, 41 percent had fully implemented NQF safe practices and 59 percent partially implemented the practices. Notably, the researchers found fully compliant hospitals had a higher likelihood of diagnosing a complication after any of six high-risk operations. Fully compliant hospitals also had decreased odds of failing to rescue patients or losing patients to death.
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