Thank you for your interest in The Leapfrog Hospital Survey. The Survey, Leapfrog’s hallmark public reporting initiative, was launched in 2001 and is now in its fifth version. The Survey assesses hospital performance based on four quality and safety practices that are proven to reduce preventable medical mistakes and are endorsed by the National Quality Forum (NQF). To learn more about the Leapfrog Safety Practices, click here.
Any hospital in the U.S. is welcome to complete the Leapfrog Hospital Survey. The Leapfrog Safe Practices Leap (comprising 13 of the 27 NQF-endorsed practices) is applicable to urban and rural hospitals.
Visit the Survey's home page to learn more about it and particate in the survey effort.
Click here for links to all of Leapfrog's Fact Sheets.
The survey data is publicly displayed on The Leapfrog Group Web site and updated monthly. Following focus group testing the display has been formatted and worded so it is easily accessible to consumers who are the primary audience for these data.
If you have any questions about the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, please contact the Leapfrog Help Desk.
Why should hospitals participate in the Leapfrog Hospital Survey?
If the first three patient safety practices were implemented in every non-rural hospital in the U.S., Birkmeyer and Dimick estimate that up to 65,341 lives could be saved and as many as 907,600 serious medication errors could be prevented each year (2004). Conrad estimates that $41.5 billion could be saved annually (2005).
In addition to the lives and dollars that could be saved by participating in the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Survey aims to provide consumers and purchasers of health care with the information they need to make informed health care choices and promote the growing trend toward transparency in health care. Our employer members make the survey data available to all their enrollees. They also commit to work to implement incentives and rewards for safe, high quality and value health care.
