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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/public-reporting-antibiotic-timing-patients-pneumonia-lessons-flawed-performance-measure
May 08, 2017 - Efforts to improve the quality and safety of care are being driven in part by a growing focus on public … The authors discuss the background data for this particular quality measure, how it was translated into … November 14, 2011
Validity of selected AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators based on VA National … Surgical Quality Improvement program data. … March 4, 2011
How do black-serving hospitals perform on patient safety indicators?
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-hospital-markup-preventable-adverse-events-following-pancreatic-surgery-united
March 14, 2022 - This study evaluated the incidence of Patient Safety Indicators (PSI) after pancreatectomies in hospitals … markup ratio had a higher incidence of PSI, and a higher markup ratio was not associated with higher quality … Assessing the excess costs of the in-hospital adverse events covered by the AHRQ's Patient Safety Indicators … January 31, 2013
Identifying opportunities for quality improvement in surgical site infection
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46488/psn-pdf
November 15, 2017 - classifying-patient
For the first time, the World Health Organization ICD-11 will include a taxonomy for quality … world-health-organization-field-trial-assessing-proposed-icd-11-framework-classifying-patient
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-appropriate-use-peripherally-inserted-central-catheters-through-statewide
April 14, 2021 - Quality improvement and patient safety projects can be costly to implement. … article describes the cost-effectiveness of the Michigan Hospital Medicine Safety Consortium (HMS) quality … December 19, 2018
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/medical-malpractice-reflected-forensic-evaluation-4450-autopsies
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Use of quality indicators to compare point-of-care testing errors in … October 10, 2012
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/multilayered-approach-patient-safety-culture
March 14, 2016 - Improvement in patient safety may precede policy changes: trends in patient safety indicators … October 12, 2011
Selection of indicators for continuous monitoring of patient safety: … October 18, 2010
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/relationship-safety-climate-and-safety-performance-hospitals
February 04, 2009 - potential safety problems (as measured by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Patient Safety Indicators … November 27, 2012
Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality … on patient safety measurement in patients undergoing CABG: experience with the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators … July 23, 2008
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/triangulating-case-finding-tools-patient-safety-surveillance-cross-sectional-case-study
February 08, 2012 - This study found that four existing case detection tools, including the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators … 2010
Relationship between performance measurement and accreditation: implications for quality … September 12, 2016
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/complication-rates-weekends-and-weekdays-us-hospitals
August 31, 2011 - obstetric procedures by using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators … Overall complication rates were modestly but significantly increased for some obstetric indicators and … September 24, 2017
The association of hospital quality ratings with adverse events. … January 26, 2011
Recommendations for quality assurance and improvement in surgical and
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/73177/psn-pdf
April 28, 2021 - The association of nursing home characteristics and
quality with adverse events after a hospitalization … The association of nursing home characteristics and quality with
adverse events after a hospitalization … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/association-nursing-home-characteristics-and-quality-adverse-events-after … Researchers found few
associations with individual quality indicators and no association between the … 5-star quality rating or
composite quality score.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/867758/psn-pdf
March 12, 2025 - psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/errors-emr-under-recognized-hazard-ai-healthcare
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ahrq-quality-and-safety-initiatives
May 20, 2009 - Commentary
AHRQ quality and safety initiatives. … AHRQ quality and safety initiatives. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2005;31(6):354-6. … Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Director Carolyn Clancy briefly presents the agency's … AHRQ quality and safety initiatives. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2005;31(6):354-6. … March 6, 2005
Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators to improve health care quality.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/41686/psn-pdf
September 19, 2012 - The authors used the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators to demonstrate that patients with
sepsis are at … association-between-sepsis-and-potential-medical-injury-among-hospitalized-patients
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/obstetric-safety-and-quality
October 20, 2014 - Commentary
Obstetric safety and quality. … Obstetric Safety and Quality. … Summarizing the unique characteristics of obstetric care that affect quality and safety, this commentary … Obstetric Safety and Quality. … May 15, 2013
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/review-patient-safety-measures-based-routinely-collected-hospital-data
February 10, 2012 - The AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) screen administrative data to identify cases of potential … weekend: a retrospective cohort study on the association between day of hospital presentation and the quality … weekend: a retrospective cohort study on the association between day of hospital presentation and the quality … November 27, 2012
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/opioid-abuse-and-poisoning-trends-inpatient-and-emergency-department-discharges
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Improvement in patient safety may precede policy changes: trends in patient safety indicators … June 3, 2020
Patient safety in plastic surgery: identifying areas for quality improvement … Performance measures in neurosurgical patient care: differing applications of patient safety indicators … National trends in patient safety indicators: 1998–2007.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/leveraging-patient-safety-research-efforts-made-fifteen-years-err-human
March 24, 2019 - April 7, 2019
Using harm-based weights for the AHRQ Patient Safety for Selected Indicators … adverse events in surgery: comparing events detected by the Veterans Health Administration Surgical Quality … Improvement Program and the Patient Safety Indicators. … December 15, 2014
Using AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators to detect postdischarge adverse
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/34112/psn-pdf
February 09, 2011 - excess-length-stay-charges-and-mortality-attributable-medical-injuries-during-
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Using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality … (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicators, this study
identified medial injuries from more than 7.4 million … excess-length-stay-charges-and-mortality-attributable-medical-injuries-during-hospitalization
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/37974/psn-pdf
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/relationship-between-state-malpractice-environment-and-quality-health-care-united-states
June 21, 2017 - Study
Relationship between state malpractice environment and quality of health care … Relationship Between State Malpractice Environment and Quality of Health Care in the United States. … Investigators assessed quality using several measures: validated processes-of-care measures, such as … Systems; imaging efficiency as reported by Medicare's Hospital Compare website; AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators … July 9, 2018
The association between patient safety indicators and medical malpractice