12
Hospital Quality Report for Professionals
Sample Hospital, Any City, FL
Safe Practices by the Leapfrog Group
This hospital participated in a survey from the Leapfrog Group most recently
on
May 16, 2005
. The following table illustrates this hospital's safe practices
ratings compared to the national average (%) for each rating category.
For more information visit
www.leapfroggroup.org
Not
Targeted
Not
Applicable
Did Not
Respond
Did Not
Meet
Good Early
Stage Effort
Good
Progress
Fully
Implemented
Computerized Drug Ordering
National
Average
17.50%
0.00%
29.10%
46.30%
0.00%
3.60%
3.50%
Intensive Care Unit Physician Staffing
National
Average
17.70%
4.60%
29.10%
33.20%
1.90%
0.90%
12.60%
Overall Safe Practices
National
Average
24.40%
13.60%
7.80%
5.50%
48.70%
0.00%
0.00%
The Leapfrog Group's goal is to initiate breakthrough improvements in the safety and overall value of healthcare to
consumers. It is a voluntary program aimed at enhancing patient safety. Hospitals in several regions nationwide are
invited to complete the Web survey and share their performance with their communities.
The Leapfrog Group is sponsored by the Business Roundtable, a national association of Fortune 500 CEOs. To become
part of Leapfrog, healthcare purchasers must implement its specific patient safety initiatives. Leapfrog purchasers are
advancing three initial methods to improve patient safety:
n
Computer physician order entry
(CPOE) is a system that enables physicians to enter hospital medication orders
via a computer that is linked to prescribing error prevention software.
n
Intensive care unit (ICU) physician staffing
is where accredited critical care physicians or intensive care
specialists are available and responsive to emergency pages.
n
Evidence-based hospital referral
(EHR) is the comparison of Leapfrog's favorable hospital volume to actual
hospital volume.
The Leapfrog group neither endorses nor warrants the quality of any data in this display other than The Leapfrog
Group's data and neither endorses nor warrants the methodology used in this display to compile data from different
sources. The Leapfrog Group data was collected and compiled by Medstat (www.medstat.com).
Ó
Copyright 2006 Health Grades, Inc. All rights reserved.
May not be reprinted or reproduced without permission from Health Grades, Inc.
