Hospitals recently have experienced greater financial pressures. Whether these financial
pressures have led to more patient safety problems is unknown. Using the Healthcare Cost …

Background: As financial pressures on hospitals increase because of changing
reimbursement structures and heightened focus on quality and value, the association …

Background: Previous studies have documented that hospitals decrease costs in response
to reimbursement cutbacks. However, research concerning how this may affect quality of …

This paper estimates the excess cost of hospital inpatient care due to adverse safety events
in the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) hospitals during fiscal year 2007. We …

Hospitals have been looking for ways to improve quality and operational efficiency and cut
costs for nearly three decades, using a variety of quality improvement strategies. However …

Objective The primary objective of this study was to estimate the occurrence and costs of
medical errors from the hospital perspective. Methods Methods from a recent actuarial study …

Financial pressure mounted for hospitals nationwide during the late 1990s. Our study
examines how this affected the quality of their operations in terms of organizational …

To determine whether hospital ownership was associated with preventable adverse events,
the authors reviewed the medical records of a random sample of 15,000 hospitalizations in …

The authors estimated the impact of potentially preventable patient safety events, identi-fied
by Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs), on …

The Institute of Medicine's report To Err Is Human described the alarming prevalence of
medical errors and recommended a range of activities to improve patient safety. Three …