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Health Care Patient Safety

The mission of the Patient Safety research portfolio at AHRQ is to reduce the risk of harm from health care services. It conducts and supports research to identify threats to patient safety, develops and evaluates effective practices, educates practitioners, and monitors and evaluates threats to patient safety.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • The Patient Safety program has a clear and specific mission. The program has developed a long-term outcome measure that is achieved through ambitious annual targets. These measures support the overall goals of preventing, mitigating, and decreasing the number of medical errors, risks, hazards, and quality gaps associated with health care and their harmful impact on patients.
  • The program has spent much of its time building the foundations necessary to achieve its goals. Early on the program focused on planning activities and initiatives, developing reporting mechanism and data structures, and developing measures. However, it must continue to work towards demonstrating progress in reducing the risk of harm.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Measuring the number of Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) that become certified based on Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act legislation.
  • Establishing annual targets around the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act.
  • Developing a data source to capture the use of AHRQ-supported tools.

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