title: Rating game: tips on how to assess your safety program.
abstract: The author offers tips on measuring the effectiveness of your healthcare facility's safety program--from establishing objectives to developing programs to meet them. He provides an 11-step process to develop a performance standard. Through these standards, he says, healthcare managers can showcase the improvements that have been implemented.
authors.affiliation: University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester, USA.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fragala
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D006748:Hospital Departments / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards*; D007591:Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations; D008330:Management Audit / Q000379:methods*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D017751:Safety Management / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States