Nature

Patient Safety Indicators and Quality of Care

Patient safety indicators (PSIs) have emerged as pivotal tools in assessing the quality of care provided by healthcare institutions. They serve as measurable benchmarks derived from administrative ...
Becker's Hospital Review

Study ties higher nurse turnover to more patient falls

A study finds higher nurse turnover significantly raises patient falls in U.S. acute care units, highlighting workforce stability's role in safety.
Becker's Hospital Review

Inside Ballad Health’s safety culture rebound

When Ballad Health’s Chief Clinical Officer Amit Vashist, MD, sent quality, safety and infection prevention teams to several member hospitals’ operating rooms unannounced to assess safety culture, he ...
HealthLeaders Media

CommonSpirit Health Making Gains in Quality and Patient Safety

Harnessing data is essential to improve quality and patient safety, the chief medical and quality officer of CommonSpirit Health says. CommonSpirit Health has been making a concerted effort to improve ...
Fierce Healthcare

Patient safety advocate cheers CMS' reversal on quality reporting, but hospitals say the data are no good

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has pulled back on plans to pause public reporting on certain hospital safety data in the wake of pushback from patient safety advocates. In Monday’s ...
Healthcare Dive

Black patients have worse safety outcomes than White patients at the same hospital, study finds

Black patients are more likely to experience an adverse safety event than their White counterparts at the same hospital, according to new data from the Urban Institute. Researchers analyzed 11 patient ...
Nature

ICD-10-CM Transition and Patient Safety Indicators

The transition to ICD-10-CM has been a pivotal development in healthcare coding, offering increased specificity and improved clinical data capture compared to its predecessor. This enhanced coding ...
JSTOR Daily

Targeted Chart Review of Pediatric Patient Safety Events Identified by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Patient Safety Indicators Methodology

Objectives: We reviewed potential patient safety events identified with Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's Patient Safety Indicator (PSI) Software to characterize clinical events associated ...
Chicago Tribune

Lake Forest Hospital improves to an ‘A’ grade in patient safety; ‘We remain committed to providing high quality, safe, patient-centered care’

After receiving three consecutive “C” grades, Northwestern Medicine Lake Forest Hospital showed enough improvement in practices to get an “A” rating from the Leapfrog Group in the organization’s most ...
EurekAlert!

New findings on patient safety at children's hospitals

ANN ARBOR, Mich. -- In recent years, children's hospitals have joined in the national push to improve patient safety and avoid preventable problems. But it has been hard to measure progress, because ...
Health Affairs

Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program Is Not Associated With Additional Patient Safety Improvement

In 2013 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced that it would begin levying penalties against hospitals with the highest rates of hospital-acquired conditions through the ...