Methods
Our Hospital is one of the best neurological hospitals in China, approving 981 beds and more than 4000 staffs. There are more than 1,800,000 patients and over 30,000 operations per year. The patient demographic values and health characteristics in this study were collected by the medical affairs department of Our Hospital and were available for analysis. The current research included all the in-hospital patients in our Hospital from 2016 to 2018. All the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration of 1975, as revised in 2000.
According to the CMS nonpayment policy, 11 hospital-acquired conditions are classified as preventable conditions: foreign objects retained after surgery, air embolism, blood incompatibility, stage III and IV pressure ulcers, falls and trauma, manifestations of poor glycemic control, catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), vascular catheter–associated infections (VCAIs), surgical site infections (SSI), deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolisms (PE), and iatrogenic pneumothorax with venous catheterization 10. We counted all the patients who met with the HACs criteria by ICD-10-CM, and the total number of each HAC and the incidence rate of them were calculated from 166463 in-hospital patients in three years from 2016 to 2018 (Table 1). Demography, finance, and length of hospitalization information were shown in Table 1. We also compared these conditions among the three years.