Consumer rankings and health care: toward validation and transparency.

Navigating a ship with a broken compass: evaluating standard algorithms to measure patient safety.

Hefner JL, Huerta TR, McAlearney AS, Barash B, Latimer T, Moffatt-Bruce SD. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2017;24:310-315.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Indicator for Postoperative Respiratory Failure (PSI 11) does not identify accurately patients who received unsafe care.

Nguyen MC, Moffatt-Bruce SD, Strosberg DS, Puttmann KT, Pan YL, Eiferman DS. Surgery. 2016;160:858-868.

Association of inpatient hospital experience with patient safety indicators: a cross-sectional, Canadian study.

Kemp KA, Santana MJ, Southern DA, McCormack B, Quan H. BMJ Open. 2016;6:e011242.

The Toolkit for Using the AHRQ Quality Indicators: How To Improve Hospital Quality and Safety.

Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality; July 2016.

Performance measures in neurosurgical patient care: differing applications of patient safety indicators.

Moghavem N, McDonald K, Ratliff JK, Hernandez-Boussard T. Med Care. 2016;54:359-364.

Hospital characteristics associated with penalties in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program.

Rajaram R, Chung JW, Kinnier CV, et al. JAMA. 2015;314:375-383.

Do patient safety indicators explain increased weekend mortality?

Ricciardi R, Nelson J, Francone TD, et al. J Surg Res. 2016;200:164-170.

Differences in the rates of patient safety events by payer: implications for providers and policymakers.

Spencer CS, Roberts ET, Gaskin DJ. Med Care. 2015;53:524-529.

Development and measurement of perioperative patient safety indicators.

Emond YE, Stienen JJ, Wollersheim HC, et al. Br J Anaesth. 2015;114:963-972.

Examining the validity of AHRQ's Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs): is variation in PSI composite score related to hospital organizational factors?

Shin MH, Sullivan JL, Rosen AK, et al. Med Care Res Rev. 2014;71:599-618.

Challenges and remediation for Patient Safety Indicators in the transition to ICD-10-CM.

Boyd AD, Yang YM, Li J, et al. J Am Med Inform Assoc. 2015;22:19-28.

A case for improving measurement of intraoperative iatrogenic injuries.

Paruch JL, Ko CY, Bilimoria KY. JAMA Surg. 2014;149:887-888.

Comparative safety of endovascular aortic aneurysm repair over open repair using Patient Safety Indicators during adoption.

Rose J, Evans C, Barleben A, et al. JAMA Surg. 2014;149:926-932.

Diffusion of surgical innovations, patient safety, and minimally invasive radical prostatectomy.

Parsons JK, Messer K, Palazzi K, Stroup S, Chang D. JAMA Surg. 2014;149:845-851.

Patient safety: let's measure what matters.

Thomas EJ, Classen DC. Ann Intern Med. 2014;160:642-643.

Using estimated true safety event rates versus flagged safety event rates: does it change hospital profiling and payment?

Rosen AK, Chen Q, Borzecki AM, Shin M, Itani KMF, Shwartz M. Health Serv Res. 2014;49:1426-1445.

Promoting engagement by patients and families to reduce adverse events in acute care settings: a systematic review.

Berger Z, Flickinger TE, Pfoh E, Martinez KA, Dy SM. BMJ Qual Saf. 2014;23:548-555. 

Validity of AHRQ patient safety indicators derived from ICD-10 hospital discharge abstract data (chart review study).

Quan H, Eastwood C, Cunningham CT, et al; IMECCHI investigators. BMJ Open. 2013;3:e003716.

Patient safety in plastic surgery: identifying areas for quality improvement efforts.

Hernandez-Boussard T, McDonald KM, Rhoads KF, Curtin CM. Ann Plast Surg. 2015;74:597-602.

Safety in numbers: the development of Leapfrog's composite patient safety score for US hospitals.

Austin JM, D'Andrea G, Birkmeyer JD, et al. J Patient Saf. 2014;10:64-71.