'Connecting the dots': leveraging visual analytics to make sense of patient safety event reports.

Raj M. Ratwani; Allan Fong

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'Connecting the dots': leveraging visual analytics to make sense of patient safety event reports.

December 3, 2014

Ratwani RM, Fong A. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015;22(2):312-7.

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This commentary describes the design and development of hospital-level and system-level dashboards representing data from patient safety event reporting systems as a way to reduce the burden of analyzing internal incident reports, increase awareness of adverse event trends, and enable utilization of the data to inform improvement.

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