… research ed.) … BMJ … Drug administration errors are a major safety concern in anesthesiology, as even routine … medications. In this randomized controlled trial, a novel system for drug administration was evaluated in … alerts were heeded. The anesthesia field has long been a leader in patient safety, and in fact, some of the earliest …

This study applied the AHRQ patient safety indicators (PSIs) to acute care hospitals internationally and discovered that certain indicators (e.g., birth trauma and complications of anesthesia) may be unreliable for comparison. However, the authors suggest that publishing comparable international data is feasible after addressing the global challenges with data reliability and quality. The latter is complicated by suspected variations in coding and clinical documentation that require further investigation.

… hospitals use the AHRQ Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) as a method to screen for potential events, with a past study suggesting associations between their presence … association with clinical outcomes, which are perhaps a greater reflection on the degree of event coding than on …