Newsweek collaborated with Leapfrog Group, an independent non-profit organization that assesses the quality of healthcare, compiling and publishing a series of ongoing ratings for healthcare facilities and products. We use publicly available data for selection and rating, including information voluntarily submitted to the annual Leapfrog Hospital Survey and Leapfrog Outpatient Surgery Center survey. We also have a team of experts and analysts to review the data and identify high performers.
The following is our second annual review of the best infection prevention products, highlighting the companies whose products are most promising to help patients and healthcare workers avoid infection. In the final year of the pandemic, infection and safety issues have become a top priority for almost everyone, not just health care professionals. Although the threat of COVID-19 seems to fade in the United States and other places, such concerns may continue for some time.
In order to decide which products will enter our list this year, a selection committee evaluates each product using four criteria: effectiveness, safety (for patients and medical staff), successful real-world implementation, and company stability (with Support future implementation).
When considering safety and effectiveness, the evaluations of the Food and Drug Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as published research reports, are taken into consideration. We evaluate and prove the effectiveness of the product by looking at the repeatability, the closeness between the laboratory data/results and the actual application of the data/results, and the closeness of the fit between the choice of test or test method and the content being studied. The quality of the research is tested.
Case studies from hospitals and other medical institutions are used to evaluate real-world implementation. The stability of the company's support for future implementation is based on publicly available information about the company. We hope you find this ranking useful.