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 ...
Harnessing data is essential to improve quality and patient safety, the chief medical and quality officer of CommonSpirit Health says. CommonSpirit Health has been making a concerted effort to improve ...
Events such as additional hospitalization, litigation costs, infections acquired in hospitals, lost income and disability can be a big drain on the economy. But apart from the financial implications, ...
A new study has found that the COVID-19 pandemic significantly impacted patient safety indicators in U.S. hospitals. The study examined data from the National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators to ...
Objectives: We reviewed potential patient safety events identified with Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) Software to characterize clinical events associated ...
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 ...
Leapfrog is calling on CMS to do away with its proposal to remove a critical patient safety measure from its Inpatient Quality Reporting Program. The safety measure at stake is “Death Among Surgical ...
Use of health information technology in acute care settings is associated with modestly lower rates of adverse patient safety outcomes for inpatient and surgical care. In a cross-sectional ...
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