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Article: State rated 48th for patient-safety incidents in hospitals.
- Article from:
- The Knoxville News-Sentinel (Knoxville, TN)
- Article date:
- April 3, 2006
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Byline: Kristi L. Nelson
Apr. 3--Tennessee ranks in the bottom five among all states when it comes to keeping patients from developing new infections or complications while in the hospital, a study released today by Health Grades Inc. found.
Tennessee placed 48th out of 50 states and the District of Columbia, ranking ahead of only Nevada, New York and New Jersey.
The Colorado-based, for-profit company, which offers quality ratings on its www.healthgrades.com Web site for a fee, used data from almost 40 million hospitalizations among the Medicare population between 2002 and 2004 for the study. It reports that 1.24 million "patient-safety ...
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