Objective To develop a composite patient safety score that provides patients, health-care
providers, and health-care purchasers with a standardized method to evaluate patient safety …

Background: In 1999, the US Congress mandated the Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), to report annually to …

Measures based on routinely collected data would be useful to examine the epidemiology of
patient safety. Extending previous work, we established the face and consensual validity of …

Hospitals have made slow progress in meeting the Institute of Medicine's patient safety
goals, and implementation of safety systems has been inconsistent. The next logical …

Objectives Concerns have mounted about the complexities of the health care system
potentially causing significant unintended adverse effects. With a major national interest in …

THE DEMAND TO IMPROVE PATIENT SAFETY IS INCREAS-ing within health care
organizations. Boards of trust-ees have a fiduciary responsibility to ensure patient safety …

Background: The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety
Indicators (PSIs) use administrative data to detect potentially preventable in-hospital …

The literature on patient safety measures derived from routinely collected hospital data was
reviewed to inform indicator development. MEDLINE and Embase databases and Web sites …

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 …

Despite the fact that the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality patient safety
indicators (PSIs) are useful for evaluating adverse events in hospitals, the 20 PSIs make it …