Chartbook on Patient Safety

National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report

This Patient Safety chartbook is part of a family of documents and tools that support the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report (QDR). The QDR includes annual reports to Congress mandated in the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999 (P.L. 106-129). This chartbook includes a summary of trends across measures of patient safety from the QDR and figures illustrating select measures of patient safety. A PowerPoint version is also available that users can download for presentations.

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Chartbook on Patient Safety—Updated July 2017[PDF, 2.2 MB]
Chartbook on Patient Safety: Slide Presentation [PowerPoint File, 1.6 MB]; Text version

Page last reviewed September 2017
Page originally created March 2016

Internet Citation: Chartbook on Patient Safety. Content last reviewed September 2017. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/patientsafety/index.html