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A flawed federal hospital safety metric wrongly blames stroke treatment deaths on care errors, risking funding and deterrence of life-saving care.
A new UCLA study finds the federal Patient Safety Indicator 04, used to assess hospital safety, unfairly penalizes hospitals performing emergency stroke treatments.
The metric, designed for surgical patients, incorrectly flags deaths in severe stroke cases—where patients are already critically ill—as preventable errors.
Analyzing over 73,000 thrombectomies, researchers found PSI 04 rates for stroke patients were 20.5%, far above the 0.10% average for other procedures, but most deaths resulted from the stroke itself, not medical mistakes.
The flawed metric may deter hospitals from treating high-risk patients and jeopardize funding and public rankings despite high-quality care.
Una métrica defectuosa de seguridad de los hospitales federales culpa erróneamente las muertes por accidente cerebrovascular por errores de atención, lo que pone en riesgo la financiación y la disuasión de la atención que salva vidas.