Patient Safety Structural Measure Specifications.
Smyrna, GA: Patients for Patient Safety US; May 1, 2024.
Effective measurement has been a long-standing challenge across patient safety efforts to generate data useful across environments to gain overarching understanding of problems and areas to target for improvement. This document outlines a multi-domain series of draft structural measures for use in Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) programs to identify the robustness of organizational factors such as leadership commitment and patient engagement to support safety improvement. The measure is open for public comment until June 10, 2024.