Hospital Safety Grade
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
A composite score of up to 22 national patient safety measures representing a hospital's overall performance in keeping patients safe from preventable harm and medical errors.
Numerator
Hospitals receive a letter grade of A through F based on their overall safety performance. See technical specs for weighting and compositing algorithm.
Denominator
This is a categorical variable using a "report card" style letter grading system.
Exclusions
Critical access hospitals (CAH) • Rural emergency hospitals (REH) • Long-term care and rehabilitation facilities • Mental health facilities • Federal hospitals (e.g., Veterans Affairs, Indian Health Services, etc.) • Some specialty hospitals, such as surgery centres and cancer hospitals • Free-standing paediatric hospitals • Hospitals in U.S. territories • Hospitals that are missing scores for more than six (6) process/structural measures, or more than five (5) outcome measures, or missing PSI 90
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Z-scores
Stratifications
By hospital and state.
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS); Leapfrog Hospital Survey
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Publicly reported at: www.hospitalsafetygrade.org/