Using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicators for targeting nursing quality improvement.

Patricia A. Zrelak; Garth H. Utter; Banafsheh Sadeghi; Joanne Cuny; Ruth Baron; Patrick S. Romano

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Using the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Patient Safety Indicators for targeting nursing quality improvement.

November 23, 2011

Zrelak PA, Utter GH, Sadeghi B, et al. J Nurs Care Qual. 2012;27(2):99-108.

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This study describes how AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators may help identify improvement opportunities for nursing care, their documentation practices, and their role in driving system-level changes.

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