The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reports that efforts to reduce such hospital- patient-safety risks as adverse drug events or falls saved 8,000 lives and $2.9 billion in 2014-2016. The numbers came in the federal agency’s National Scorecard on Hospital-Acquired Conditions.
The study said that the AHRQ estimated that 350,000 hospital-acquired conditions were avoided in that period, cutting the rate of such adverse events by 8 percent.
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