For example, the following percentages of reporting hospitals fully met Leapfrog’s standard in 2009 for six high-risk procedures and conditions:
- Aortic valve replacement (11.8 percent)
- Abdominal aortic aneurism repair (36.1 percent)
- Pancreatic resection (33.5 percent)
- Esophageal resection (31.5 percent)
- Weight-loss surgery (36.6 percent)
- High-risk deliveries (29.9 percent)
Pointing to waste, Leapfrog reported a 56 percent difference between the highest and lowest performing hospitals in resource use for heart bypass surgery and a 79 percent difference for heart angioplasty.
Leapfrog Hospital Survey results include1,244 hospitals in 45 states. Individual hospital results can be viewed and compared here.
Read the Leapfrog Group’s release on hospital quality.
