Patient safety indicators (PSIs) have emerged as pivotal tools in assessing the quality of care provided by healthcare institutions. They serve as measurable benchmarks derived from administrative ...

We sought to determine whether concurrent (before discharge) Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality patient safety indicator evaluation would result in a more expeditious review, accurate ...

The toolkit offers hospitals resources to improve quality and safety by understanding and using AHRQ’s quality indicators. The quality indicators use hospital administrative data to assess the care ...

U.S. News & World Report Managing Editor Ben Harder announced yesterday that the methodology for next year’s closely watched Best Hospitals ratings will give more weight to patient safety indicators.

International Journal for Quality in Health Care, Vol. 21, No. 3 (June 2009), pp. 169-175 (7 pages) Background. Initiatives to improve patient safety have high priority among health professionals and ...

Black patients are more likely to experience an adverse safety event than their White counterparts at the same hospital, according to new data from the Urban Institute. Researchers analyzed 11 patient ...

Investigators led by John Rose, MD, MPH, of the University of California, San Diego (San Diego, CA), looked at data for 43,385 EVAR procedures and 27,561 open repairs extracted from the Nationwide ...

Several research teams have raised issues about the limitations of claims data to measure PSIs. Now changes are in the works. New data promises to add fuel to the ongoing discussion over the accuracy ...

The economic and clinical burden of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is uncontested. In many hospitals, VAP surveillance is conducted to identify outbreaks and to monitor infection rates. Here, ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has pulled back on plans to pause public reporting on certain hospital safety data in the wake of pushback from patient safety advocates. In Monday’s ...

New policies are needed to close hospital patient safety gap between Black and White patients, researchers say. Differences in the quality of hospitals that Black and White patients access are a ...