Patient safety indicators for judging hospital performance: still not ready for prime time. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Patient safety indicators for judging hospital performance: still not ready for prime time. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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• Published December 2015

Patient safety indicators for judging hospital performance: still not ready for prime time.

Kubasiak JC, Francescatti AB, Behal R, Myers JA. Am J Med Qual. 2015 Dec 29; [Epub ahead of print].

Examining patient safety indicator (PSI) events at a single academic hospital, this study found that up to one-third of reported events were due to the disease process rather than a patient safety problem, and between 11%–30% of events were not clinically significant. The authors argue that PSIs as currently reported should not be used for ranking hospitals.

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