Leapfrog Group Safe Practices Score
This quality measure is made up of individual scores on 27 healthcare practices. The score that Cedars-Sinai Medical Center achieved in this area, puts the Medical Center in the top 10% of the more than 1,200 hospital nationwide that report to The Leapfrog Group.
These practices are summarized below:
Culture of Safety
This measure requires a hospital to promote a culture of safety and to hire adequate nursing staff.
Communication Among Healthcare Workers
This measure includes repeating verbal orders, using standardized abbreviations and doses, using original sources to write patient care summaries, giving patient care orders to all healthcare providers and correctly labeling X-rays.
Doctor and Patient Communications
This measure requires that doctors discuss and agree on procedures with patients and that a patient's preferences for end-of-life care are displayed in his or her chart.
Prevent Infections
This measure requires that care providers wash their hands with a disinfectant before and after seeing patients and that appropriate measures are taken to prevent patients from aspirating, developing infections related to having a catheter, assessing and prevent the risk of infections as a result of surgery and vaccinating healthcare workers to prevent flu infections.
Prevent Medication Errors
This measure requires that a pharmacist review all medication orders, an orderly work space is maintained for dispensing medications, medications are properly labeled and stored, high risk medications are identified and safeguarded, medications are purchase and stored in single use form and that safe processes are put in place for using anti-blood-clotting medication.
