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Validating the Patient Safety Indicators in the Veterans Health Administration: do they accurately identify true safety events?
November 2, 2011
Rosen AK, Itani KMF, Cevasco M, et al. Med Care. 2011;50(1).
The Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) had only moderate predictive accuracy for identifying adverse events compared with independent clinical review. As shown in prior research, many errors identified by the PSIs were actually present on admission.
