An organization-specific and modifiable inpatient safety composite measure.

Smith PK, Amster A. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2019;45:304-314.

This commentary describes how one health system developed and utilized an inpatient safety composite measure to track hospital-level performance on a select set of adverse events. The authors found that the tool successfully quantified improvement over time and suggest it can be used by other hospitals and health systems.

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