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Illinois Hospital Report Card

and Consumer Guide to Health Care

Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital


Quality - Process of Care

Process of Care

These indicators are used to measure how often hospitals use recommended treatments known to get the best results for certain conditions. This data comes from medicare.gov/hospitalcompare

Patients who developed a blood clot while in the hospital who did not get treatment that could have prevented it

This measure is used to assess the percent of patients diagnosed with confirmed venous thromboembolism (VTE) during hospitalization (not present at admission) who did not receive VTE prophylaxis between hospital admission and the day before the VTE diagnosis testing order date.

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