A new report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality shows patient safety is improving but there is still room for growth at hospitals.
Here are seven key notes from the report.
1. There were 17 percent fewer patient harms in 2013 than in 2011.
2. There were 1.3 million fewer hospital-acquired conditions.
3. There were 50,000 fewer deaths last year than in 2010.
4. 70 percent of recommended care is delivered across the broad array of quality measures.
5. CMS measures were more likely to achieve high performance levels compared with measures reported by other sources.
6. The disparities for some services like childhood vaccinations have been reduced to zero.
7. People in lower economic households continue to report worse access to care on all access measures.
