AHRQ Quality Indicators 101: Slide Presentation

Patient Safety Indicators

• Complications of anesthesia
• Death in low mortality DRGs
• Decubitus ulcer
• Failure to rescue
• Foreign body left during procedure*
• Iatrogenic pneumothorax*
• Selected infections due to medical care*
• Postoperative hemorrhage or hematoma
• Postoperative hip fracture
• Postoperative physiological and metabolic derangement
• Postoperative PE or DVT

Note: The indicators marked with * are also provided as area-level indicators.