AHRQ Patient Safety Network

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•Device-related Complications (51)

•Diagnostic Errors (47)

•Identification Errors (27)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (243)

•Fatigue and Sleep Deprivation (34)

•Medication Safety (352)

•Medical Complications (229)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (16)

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•Psychological and Social Complications (62)

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Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (387)

•Active Errors (163)

•Latent Errors (96)

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Approach to Improving Safety

•Quality Improvement Strategies (358)

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•Error Reporting and Analysis (407)

•Communication Improvement (380)

•Human Factors Engineering (139)

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•Specialization of Care (101)

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•Culture of Safety (245)

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General Internal Medicine

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (811)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (1132)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (557)

•Patients (124)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (1255)

•Psychiatric Facilities (5)

•Residential Facilities (9)

•Ambulatory Care (175)

•Outpatient Surgery (4)

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BOOK/REPORT

HealthGrades Seventh Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.

Golden, CO: HealthGrades, Inc.; March 2010.

STUDY

How do black-serving hospitals perform on patient safety indicators?: Implications for national public reporting and pay-for-performance.

Ly DP, Lopez L, Isaac T, Jha AK. Med Care. 2010;48:1133-1137.

MULTI-USE WEBSITE

HAC Posting on Hospital Compare.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.

BOOK/REPORT

Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2009.

Oakbrook Terrace, IL: The Joint Commission; January 2010.

BOOK/REPORT

HealthGrades Sixth Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.

Golden, CO: HealthGrades, Inc.; April 2009.

BOOK/REPORT

Improving America's Hospitals: The Joint Commission's Annual Report on Quality and Safety 2012.

Oakbrook Terrace, IL: The Joint Commission; September 2012.

BOOK/REPORT

HealthGrades Quality Study: Fourth Annual Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.

Golden, CO: HealthGrades, Inc.; April 2007.

STUDY

Measurement for improvement: a survey of current practice in Australian public hospitals.

Brand CA, Tropea J, Ibrahim JE, et al. Med J Aust. 2008;189:35-40.

STUDY

Hospital performance trends on national quality measures and the association with Joint Commission accreditation.

Schmaltz SP, Williams SC, Chassin MR, Loeb JM, Wachter RM. J Hosp Med. 2011;6:458-465.

BOOK/REPORT

The Patient Safety Initiative at America’s Public Hospitals: The Year One Overview.

Research Brief. Washington, DC: National Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems; January 2011.

COMMENTARY

Integrating CUSP and TRIP to improve patient safety.

Romig M, Goeschel C, Pronovost P, Berenholtz SM. Hosp Pract (Minneap). 2010;38:114-121.

ORGANIZATIONAL POLICY/GUIDELINES

Transitions of Care Consensus Policy Statement American College of Physicians-Society of General Internal Medicine-Society of Hospital Medicine-American Geriatrics Society-American College of Emergency Physicians-Society of Academic Emergency Medicine.

Snow V, Beck D, Budnitz T, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2009;24:971-976.

COMMENTARY

Making inpatient medication reconciliation patient centered, clinically relevant and implementable: a consensus statement on key principles and necessary first steps.

Greenwald JL, Halasyamani L, Greene J, et al. J Hosp Med. 2010;5:477-485.

AUDIOVISUAL PRESENTATION

North Carolina Just Culture Journey.

Plano, TX: Just Culture Community; November 2008.

FACT SHEET/FAQS

2012 Hospital National Patient Safety Goals.

Oakbrook Terrace, IL: Joint Commission; 2011.

COMMENTARY

Medicare nonpayment, hospital falls, and unintended consequences.

Inouye SK, Brown CJ, Tinetti ME. N Engl J Med. 2009;360:2390-2393.

COMMENTARY

Moving beyond readmission penalties: creating an ideal process to improve transitional care.

Burke RE, Kripalani S, Vasilevskis EE, Schnipper JL. J Hosp Med. 2013;8:102-109.

BOOK/REPORT

The First Annual HealthGrades Pediatric Patient Safety in American Hospitals Study.

Reed K, May R. Golden, CO: Health Grades, Inc; 2010.

STUDY

Is patient safety improving? National trends in patient safety indicators: 1998–2007.

Downey JR, Hernandez-Boussard T, Banka G, Morton JM. Health Serv Res. 2012;47:414-430.

STUDY

Preliminary assessment of pediatric health care quality and patient safety in the United States using readily available administrative data.

McDonald KM, Davies SM, Haberland CA, et al. Pediatrics. 2008;122:e416-e425.

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