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flag A flawed federal hospital safety metric wrongly blames stroke treatment deaths on care errors, risking funding and deterrence of life-saving care.

flag A new UCLA study finds the federal Patient Safety Indicator 04, used to assess hospital safety, unfairly penalizes hospitals performing emergency stroke treatments. flag The metric, designed for surgical patients, incorrectly flags deaths in severe stroke cases—where patients are already critically ill—as preventable errors. flag 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. flag The flawed metric may deter hospitals from treating high-risk patients and jeopardize funding and public rankings despite high-quality care.

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