Here are five highlights:
1. This figure amounts to a 17 percent decline in adverse events, or 87,000 fewer lives lost.
2. The decline results in healthcare savings of nearly $20 billion between 2010 and 2014.
3. The most reductions occurred among adverse drug events, pressure ulcers and catheter-associated urinary tract infections — three of the four most frequent types of conditions.
4. The efforts also contributed to a substantial reduction in the number of potentially-deadly central-line associated blood stream infections.
5. In 2015, there were 800,000 fewer harmful events than in years past, according to Patrick Conway, MD, principal deputy administrator and chief medical officer at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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