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The Leapfrog Group works with over 50 leading medical experts to identify solutions that will improve hospital quality and safety and then gathers information from hospitals around the country. The Leapfrog Hospital Survey asks hospitals to report on the steps they take to improve patient care. Results of the survey for UCSD Medical Center in Hillcrest and UCSD Thornton Hospital in La Jolla can be found by following the links below.

• Overall Patient Safety Ratings
• Overall Treatment Safety Ratings

Individual category reports can also be accessed by the links on the left.

Scoring Info

Leapfrog's experts work with Thomson Reuters to develop a scoring algorithm for every safety and quality practice or 'leap' in the Leapfrog Hospital Survey. This algorithm is applied to hospitals' answers to individual questions in the survey which gives the results that are shown on our survey results web pages as shaded bars. Hospitals scores are displayed ranging from one filled bar to four filled bars.

• Learn about Leapfrog's scoring algorithm
• Understand the scoring method for the NQF Safe Practices Leap
  

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Consumers may validate these ratings, learn more about Leapfrog's scoring methodology and compare hospital ratings on Leapfrog's website, www.leapfroggroup.org