Background Hospitals under financial pressure may struggle to maintain quality and patient
safety and have worse patient outcomes relative to well-resourced hospitals. Poor predictive …

Background Fiscal constraints faced by US hospitals as a result of the recent economic
downturn are leading to business practices that reduce costs and improve financial and …

Concerns about deficiencies in the quality of care delivered in US hospitals grew during a
time period when an increasing number of hospitals were experiencing financial problems …

In 2003, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) released 20 patient safety
indicators (PSI) to facilitate measurement of adverse events. Though intended for internal …

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

Background. The extent to which patient experiences with hospital care are related to other
measures of hospital quality and safety is unknown. Methods. We examined the relationship …

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 …

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

Objectives The purpose of this study was to examine relationships among 2 Agency for
Healthcare Research and Quality measures of hospital patient safety and quality, which …

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 …