Is your hospital safe? 1 in 3 surgeries will have at least 1 complication.
Most people pick a surgeon and then have their procedure done at whatever hospital that surgeon is affiliated with. We think that’s the wrong approach. Serious complication rates for the same procedure vary widely among hospitals more than among surgeons. Here are a few facts.
If you go to the lowest-rated vs highest-rated hospital in South Florida, you have:
31 times
The risk of bloodstream infection
9 times
The risk of colon surgery infection
7 times
The risk of respiratory failure
Imagine you’re picking a place to eat. You find out about a high-end chef and plan to eat at his restaurant without any research. When you arrive, you see a “C” rating from the sanitation department. Would you rather risk it because you trust the chef, or narrow your search to an A-rated restaurant and find a quality chef there?
Selecting the wrong hospital increases your risk of death by up to 12 times.
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Comparing hospital-acquired infection rates
What is a standardized infection rate?
We use a metric created by a governmental group called the CDC’s National Healthcare Safety Network. This system lets us compare the actual number of infections that happened in a hospital to the number that are expected to happen, based on various demographic factors. If the standard infection rate is less than one, it’s a good sign- it means the hospital had fewer infections than were estimated. If the number is more than one, it means the hospital had more infections than expected.
As a general code, if SIR < 1: the hospital is exceeding expectations since they have a lower infection rate than expected.