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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/40805/psn-pdf
July 19, 2016 - Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's
Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2011. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/improving-americas-hospitals-joint-commissions-annual-report-quality-and … report emphasizes performance on Hospitals in the United States have made significant
improvements in quality … This report emphasizes performance on accountability measures—quality metrics that
are closely tied … Beginning in 2012, The Joint
Commission began to integrate performance expectations on accountability measures
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/44599/psn-pdf
December 09, 2015 - In this retrospective observational study, investigators
examined maternal and neonatal quality measures … They found that four of seven performance measures studied were worse
during the weekend, but staffing … association-between-day-delivery-and-obstetric-outcomes-observational-study
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/do-hospitals-provide-lower-quality-care-weekends
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/risk-medication-errors-and-nurses-quality-sleep-national-cross-sectional-web-survey-study
February 09, 2022 - Study
Risk of medication errors and nurses' quality of sleep: a national cross-sectional … Risk of medication errors and nurses' quality of sleep: a national cross-sectional web survey study. … Risk of medication errors and nurses' quality of sleep: a national cross-sectional web survey study. … February 15, 2023
Medication errors in intensive care units: an umbrella review of control measures … December 18, 2019
The use of "lives saved" measures in nurse staffing and patient safety
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/when-should-multicampus-hospital-be-considered-single-entity-public-reporting-patient-safety
June 28, 2011 - January 4, 2012
Impact of diagnosis-timing indicators on measures of safety, comorbidity … March 28, 2011
How best to measure surgical quality? … Comparison of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicators (AHRQ-PSI) and … January 31, 2018
Quality and safety implications of emergency department information … November 14, 2011
Adherence to Surgical Care Improvement Project measures and the association
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/ranking-hospitals-based-preventable-hospital-death-rates-systematic-review-implications-both
April 22, 2017 - This systematic review examined whether preventable death rates could be used as a measure of hospital … quality. … The authors conclude that preventable death rates would not be a valid or reliable measure of patient … From the Same Author(s)
Reviewing deaths in British and US hospitals: a study of two scales … January 27, 2021
Whistleblowing over patient safety and care quality: a review of the
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/establishing-ambulatory-medicine-quality-and-safety-oversight-structure-leveraging-fractal
July 01, 2017 - Commentary
Establishing an ambulatory medicine quality and safety oversight structure … Establishing an Ambulatory Medicine Quality and Safety Oversight Structure: Leveraging the Fractal Model … January 6, 2017
Sustaining reliability on accountability measures at the Johns Hopkins … January 29, 2015
Demonstrating high reliability on accountability measures at The Johns … August 1, 2016
Developing a primary care patient measure of safety (PC PMOS): a modified
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/promising-areas-patient-safety-research
November 02, 2016 - Hospital-associated patient safety issues have been relatively easier to measure and improve, because … (AHRQ's Patient Safety Indicators and Quality Indicators), specific performance measures required by … A hospital using all of these measures would, however, only scratch the surface of evaluating the quality … down to this: There is no overall scheme today (nor is there likely to be one soon) guiding individual measure … versus the value of the information produced by those measures.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/43707/psn-pdf
November 26, 2014 - America's Hospitals: Improving Quality and Safety: The
Joint Commission's Annual Report 2014. … https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/americas-hospitals-improving-quality-and-safety-joint-commissions-annual … -
report-2014
This Joint Commission annual report shows continued improvements in quality of care in … Even as The Joint Commission has added new
accountability measures over the past few years for stroke … psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/joint-commission-center-transforming-healthcare
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/accountability-measures-using-measurement-promote-quality-improvement
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/jcaho-patient-safety-event-taxonomy-standardized-terminology-and-classification-schema-near
June 04, 2014 - May 20, 2009
Hospital performance trends on national quality measures and the association … January 23, 2019
Accountability measures—using measurement to promote quality improvement … September 20, 2011
The ongoing quality improvement journey: next stop, high reliability … Annual Perspective
Improving Diagnostic Safety and Quality … August 26, 2009
An international review of patient safety measures in radiotherapy practice
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/using-inpatient-hospital-discharge-data-monitor-patient-safety-events
March 02, 2011 - Screening of hospital discharge data using the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators , along with other measures … October 31, 2014
Demonstrating high reliability on accountability measures at The Johns … January 19, 2014
Validity of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety … December 1, 2010
Impact of diagnosis-timing indicators on measures of safety, comorbidity
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/assessment-nursing-home-reporting-major-injury-falls-quality-measurement-nursing-home-compare
August 24, 2022 - Emerging Classic
Assessment of nursing home reporting of major injury falls for quality … Assessment of nursing home reporting of major injury falls for quality measurement on nursing home compare … July 20, 2022
Do crowdsourced hospital ratings coincide with Hospital Compare measures … of clinical and nonclinical quality? … measures and associated facility characteristics and racial disparities in US nursing home ratings.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/language-proficiency-and-adverse-events-us-hospitals-pilot-study
January 23, 2012 - Language barriers likely impair patients' ability to receive quality health care, but the link between … measures and the association with Joint Commission accreditation. … January 23, 2012
Accountability measures—using measurement to promote quality improvement … November 10, 2010
The ongoing quality improvement journey: next stop, high reliability … October 31, 2018
Infection control measure performance in long-term care hospitals and
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/wrong-patient
December 23, 2008 - in the Annals of Internal Medicine that explores a range of quality issues and medical errors. … December 23, 2008
Hospital performance trends on national quality measures and the association … June 21, 2015
Improving the quality of health care: what's taking so long? … January 23, 2019
Accountability measures—using measurement to promote quality improvement … A quality improvement project to reduce risks of inadvertent insulin pen sharing at a large academic
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/what-expect-when-youre-evaluating-healthcare-improvement-concordat-approach-managing
February 17, 2011 - July 3, 2014
Sustaining reliability on accountability measures at the Johns Hopkins Hospital … January 27, 2016
Demonstrating high reliability on accountability measures at The Johns … A qualitative study of a large-scale exercise in seeking to measure for improvement, not blame. … August 8, 2018
Effectively leading for quality. … June 28, 2017
Rethinking medical ward quality.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/46015/psn-pdf
August 15, 2018 - accreditation by The Joint Commission is associated with
improved hospital performance on certain quality … of care measures. … patient-mortality-during-unannounced-accreditation-surveys-us-hospitals
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/hospital-performance-trends-national-quality-measures-and-association-joint-commission … accreditation-and-regulation-can-they-help-improve-patient-safety
https://psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/americas-hospitals-improving-quality-and-safety-joint-commissions-annual-report
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/33781/psn-pdf
March 01, 2015 - At the time I was trying to work
out what to allocate to each hospital and what measures of quality … So we didn't do
the morbidity measures. … And we hope that people will use the measures to introduce improvements. … RW: There's been debate in the medical literature about using the HSMR as a quality measure, and some … We also say that HSMR is not the measure of the quality of the hospital.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/dissecting-leapfrog-how-well-do-leapfrog-safe-practices-scores-correlate-hospital-compare
September 19, 2012 - Hospital quality scores are publicly available, but the extent to which they reflect patient safety remains … This study compared measures from the Leapfrog Group , which incorporates mandatory publicly reported … Evaluation of the association between Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture (HSOPS) measures … Evaluation of the association between Nursing Home Survey on Patient Safety culture (NHSOPS) measures … May 17, 2018
Characteristics of healthcare organisations struggling to improve quality
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psnet.ahrq.gov/perspective/conversation-paul-mcgann-md
July 10, 2024 - Better quality care is more efficient, higher quality care. … One of the most surprising measures was to reduce the rate of early elective delivery in this country … The NHSN website and data collection system and its measures are as standardized as they come. … The Partnership for Patients 2.0 statement of work does have a suggested standardized list of measures … patient safety, the fact is it is not standardized, and people do use a lot of different measures.
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psnet.ahrq.gov/issue/examining-impact-ahrq-patient-safety-indicators-psis-veterans-health-administration-case
December 15, 2011 - May 19, 2014
Using harm-based weights for the AHRQ Patient Safety for Selected Indicators … September 1, 2018
Quality improvement lessons learned from National Implementation of … October 31, 2014
Demonstrating high reliability on accountability measures at The Johns … January 19, 2014
Validity of Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety … December 1, 2010
Impact of diagnosis-timing indicators on measures of safety, comorbidity
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psnet.ahrq.gov/innovation/statewide-collaborative-support-vaginal-birth-and-reduce-unnecessary-cesarean-deliveries
July 23, 2024 - for the Healthy People 2020 and 2030 goal, as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Core measure … News & World Report as a hospital quality measure. … of progress and a means to report progress on measures back to hospitals on a regular basis Reports … Select 2 or 3 quality measures that can be tracked over time (using standardized national measures). … of progress and a means to report progress on measures back to hospitals on a regular basis Reports