The data covers 566 single specialty and 918 multispecialty ASCs. Key findings in the data include:
1. Patient fall rate: 0.122 per 1,000 admissions
2. Burn rate: 0.019 per 1,000 admissions
3. All cause hospital transfers and admissions: 0.955 per 1,000 admissions
4. Wrong site, side, patient, procedure, implant: 0.032 per 1,000 admissions
5. Prophylactic IV antibiotic timing: 99 percent of ASC admissions
6. Appropriate surgical site hair removal: 94 percent
7. Eligible ASC patients with normotheria: 98
8. Cataract surgery patients with unplanned anterior vitrectomy: 0.44 percent
9. Toxic anterior segment syndrome rate: 0.31 per 1,000 anterior segment surgery patients
10. All cause emergency department visits within one day of discharge: 0.69 per 1,000 admissions
11. All cause unplanned hospital admissions within one day of discharge: 0.36 per 1,000 admissions
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