This website offers resources related to the Leapfrog Hospital Survey investigating hospitals' progress in implementing specific patient safety practices. Updates to the survey include increased time allotted to complete computerized provider order entry evaluation, staffing of critical care physicians on intensive care units, and use of tools to measure safety culture. Reports discussing the results are segmented into specific areas of focus such as health care-associated infections and medication errors. The 2023 survey session opens April 1, 2023.

The AHRQ Surveys on Patient Safety Culture™ (SOPS®) Hospital Survey and accompanying toolkit were developed to collect opinions of hospital staff on the safety culture at their organizations. An accompanying database serves as a central repository for hospitals to report their results. Participating hospitals will be able to measure patient safety culture in their institutions and compare results with other sites. Data collection for the latest submission period is closed.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) provides consumers with publicly available information on the quality of Medicare-certified hospital care through this Web site. The site includes specific information for both patients and hospitals on how to use the data to guide decision-making and improvement initiatives. Most recently, listings from the Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program (HACRP) and data on Department of Veterans Affairs hospitals were added to the reports available.

Voluntary reporting systems collect adverse event data to inform improvement and education efforts. This site provides a platform for physicians and their staff to submit adverse experiences associated with dermatologic surgery equipment, medications or biologics.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) support transparency through the provision of publicly available information on the quality of health care service in the United States. This portal enables access to comparative quality and safety data from doctors & clinicians, hospital, nursing home, home health, hospice, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals, and dialysis facilities to support informed consumer health care provider selection activities.

The Patient Safety Organization (PSO) program seeks to gather and analyze nonidentifiable patient safety incident data to track concerns and reduce risks. This website provides data submitted from PSOs and other organizations in reports, chartbooks, and dashboards. These tools enable the wide dissemination of information to inform organizational improvement strategies.

Transparency has been advocated as a key element of safe, patient-centered care, but data on individual performance has not been made widely available. This database compiles the death and complication rates of surgeons performing eight specific elective procedures on Medicare patients to provide performance records and enhance patient decision-making when selecting surgeons.

This Web site provides access to federal hospital inspection reports that detail deficiencies cited from complaint inspections at acute care and critical access hospitals.

This Web site provides access to incident reports with the aim of stimulating innovation and driving patient safety improvement efforts.

This website is a practical resource to review existing clinical practice guidelines in a centralized location. Key components of the site include links to full-text guidelines and an assessment function that explores the rigor and trustworthiness of each document. This website was built by the team that developed and maintained the AHRQ National Guideline Clearinghouse, which is no longer available.

This commercial database tracked both adverse drug reactions and medication errors submitted by participating hospitals. Subscribers had access to national data, which can be used for trend analysis and internal benchmarking. The system was transitioned to Quantros in 2008.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Quality Indicators (QIs) represent quality measures that make use of a hospital's available administrative data to inform improvement. This Web site provides access to four modules of indicators: prevention, inpatient, pediatric, and patient safety.

This searchable listing of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists policy and guideline collection provides user access to various content areas relevant to safe inpatient medication administration. The 2018 enhancements include a revision of the "ASHP Guidelines on Preventing Medication Errors in Hospitals".

This interactive tool identifies, tracks, analyzes, and compares statistics on hospital care. It is part of the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP). With HCUPnet, users gain easy access to all national and selected state statistics about hospital admissions. These statistics can provide insight into quality of care issues.

This website provides consumers with detailed information about the past performance of every Medicare- and Medicaid-certified nursing home in the country. Additional resources available at the site help with other nursing home selection issues. Information is provided in English and Spanish. In 2020, the website was renamed Care Compare, with links to compare hospitals, hospice, and other care providers. 

The Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) is a family of databases and related software tools and products developed through a federal-state-industry partnership. These databases enable research on a broad range of health policy issues, including cost and quality of health services, medical practice patterns, access to health care programs, and outcomes of treatments at the national, state, and local market levels.

This web-accessible database provided access to evidence-based quality measures and measure sets. The mission of the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse (NQMC) was to provide practitioners, health care providers, health plans, integrated delivery systems, purchasers, and others an accessible mechanism for obtaining detailed information on quality measures and to further their dissemination, implementation, and use in order to inform health care decisions. Funding for the program ended in 2018.

SafeMedication.com features complete, easy-to-read information on more than 800 drugs. The site helps patients find the important information they need to use medications safely and effectively.