Measuring patient safety events: opportunities and challenges.

Rosen AK, Chen Q. National Quality Measures Clearinghouse: Expert Commentaries; June 13, 2016.

The current measures designed to enable transparency and accountability are falling short of helping to reach those goals. This article discusses weaknesses in the existing metrics used to track patient safety improvement. Factors contributing to the problem include the myriad of measure sets, reliance on retrospective data collection and analysis, and gaps due to inconsistent methods of engaging patients and families in reporting safety-related events.

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