The data is detailed in a new report, “Pennsylvania Hospital Quality: Achieving More Together,” which describes the quality and patient safety initiatives in Pennsylvania hospitals.
Key findings include the following:
• The number of catheter-associated urinary tract infections decreased 36 percent between 2008 and 2011.
• The number of wrong-site surgeries decreased 40 percent from 2007 to 2012.
• Hospital employee influenza vaccination rates reached a rate of 72 percent during the 2011 to 2012 influenza season.
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