Association between hospital acquired harm outcomes and membership in a national patient safety collaborative.
Coffey M, Marino M, Lyren A, et al. Association between hospital acquired harm outcomes and membership in a national patient safety collaborative. JAMA Pediatr. 2022;176(9):924-932. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.2493.
The Partnership for Patients (P4P) program launched hospital engagement networks (HEN) in 2011 to reduce hospital-acquired harms. This study reports on the outcomes of eight conditions from one HEN, Children's Hospitals' Solutions for Patient Safety (SPS). While the results do show a reduction in harms, the authors state earlier claims of improvement may have been overstated due to failure to not adjust for secular improvements. The co-director of Partnership for Patients, Dr. Paul McGann, was interviewed in 2016 for a PSNet perspective.