SAFETY-net health care providersRESEARCH fundingThis cross-sectional study examines whether characteristics of hospitals differ across 5 frequently used safety-net hospital definitions using 2020 data.McNeill, ElizabethCronin, CoryPuro, NeerajFranz, Berkeley...
The National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) definition for catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI) is used to evaluate improvements in CAUTI prevention efforts. We assessed whether clinician practice was reflective of the NHSN definition. We evaluated all adult inpatients hospitalized between...
Herwaldt, MD, Hospital Epidemilogist, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA Issue: January 1, 2008, the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSH) implemented a revised definition of a laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infection (LCBI). Criteria 2b and 3b鈥搘hich defined ...
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line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) definition in pediatric intensive care units (PICUs) and pediatric hematology/oncology units (PHOUs) participating in a multicenter quality improvement collaborative to reduce CLABSIs; to identify sources of variability in the application of the definition. De...
and patients covered by Medicaid. One such definition, Disproportionate Share Hospital (DSH) payments, was developed by CMS to allocate funding to safety-net hospitals. DSH payments are calculated based on the share of care provided to patients receiving social security payments, Medicare coverage, ...
“non–safety-net” physicians based on the survey-weighted proportion of visits to each physician by patients with Medicaid or no insurance; this operationalizes the Institute of Medicine’s definition of safety-net physicians as those who care for a substantial share of patients without insurance...
15-17 We obtained data on Medicare cost margins (net hospital income divided by total hospital revenue) to characterize hospitals' financial status. Definition of snh Because there is no consensus on how to define an SNH, we used multiple approaches. Our primary approach, which has been widely...
61 Safety-net health centers62 serve patients who are among the most vulnerable in our society because they are more likely to have lower income, be racial/ethnic minorities, lack health insurance, and have lower health literacy. Strengths and Limitations To our knowledge, this is the first ...
7-10 In the case of readmissions, black patients are more likely to be readmitted compared with white patients,11 safety-net hospitals care for a larger proportion of black patients than non–safety-net hospitals,12 and safety-net hospitals have higher readmission rates compared with non–safety...