title: Minimize risk and costly adverse events with data gathering, reporting program.
abstract: Benchmarking errors and adverse events: Studies show adverse events affect up to 35% of all patients, add up to 15% to each hospital's bottom line, and cost the country billions in health care dollars. But you can measure how often and where these events are occurring--and begin making improvements. Here's how to track incidents, aggregate the data, and use it to benchmark against other facilities and pinpoint improvement efforts-plus, sample reports from two hospitals.
mesh_terms: D019985:Benchmarking / Q000379:methods*; D003625:Data Collection; D006739:Hospital Administration / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D007049:Iatrogenic Disease / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012308:Risk Management / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D018571:Sentinel Surveillance; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology