Measuring patient safety: the Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System (past, present, and future). | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Measuring patient safety: the Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System (past, present, and future). | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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• Published October 2016

Measuring patient safety: the Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System (past, present, and future).

Classen DC, Munier W, Verzier N, et al. J Patient Saf. 2016 Oct 20; [Epub ahead of print].

The Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System was developed to track adverse events nationally to support robust safety improvement. This review summarizes the history of the Medicare Patient Safety Monitoring System and its evolution into a new system that seeks to enhance the standardization and utilization of the collected data.

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