Measures of Patient Safety Based on Hospital Administrative Data The Patient Safety Indicators

	About this book
	AHRQ Technical Reviews and Summaries
	5. Measures of Patient Safety Based on Hospital Administrative DataThe Patient Safety Indicators
	Acknowledgments
	Structured Abstract
	Summary
	Chapter 1. Introduction
	Chapter 2. Methodology
	Chapter 3. Results
	Chapter 4. Conclusions
	References
	Text Tables
	Figures
	Appendix A Inventory of Potential Patient Safety Indicators
	Appendix B Clinician Review Panels
	Appendix C Sample of Information Sent to Panelists
	Appendix D Empirical Methods Details
	Appendix E Details of Indicator Definitions
	Appendix F Detailed Results for Rejected Indicators
	Appendix G Detailed Empirical Results
	Appendix H Comparison of PSIs with CSP Indicators and Miller et al. PSIs
	Appendix I Definitions of Indicators Presented to Panelists
	Appendix J Peer Reviewers
	Acronyms Used in This Report

5. Measures of Patient Safety Based on Hospital Administrative Data

The Patient Safety Indicators

Prepared for:

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Public Health Service

2101 East Jefferson Street

Rockville, MD 20852

www.ahrq.gov

Contract No. 290-97-0013

Prepared by:

University of California San Francisco-Stanford Evidence-based Practice Center

Kathryn M. McDonald, M.M. (Stanford)

Principal Investigator

Patrick S. Romano, M.D., M.P.H. (UC-Davis)

Jeffrey Geppert, J.D. (Stanford)

Sheryl M. Davies, M.S. (Stanford)

Bradford W. Duncan, M.D. (Stanford)

Kaveh G. Shojania, M.D. (UCSF)

Investigators

Angela Hansen, B.A. (Stanford)

EPC Research Assistant

AHRQ Publication No. 02-0038

August 2002

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