title: Integrating patient safety indicators into patient safety programs.
abstract: Patient safety indicators (PSIs) can be a valuable reporting tool to incorporate into patient safety plans to monitor performance and identify areas that warrant further investigation. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) developed PSIs as a low-cost tool to enable hospitals to monitor safety patterns within specific patient populations. Screening performance and evaluating it against empirical rates provided by AHRQ are the cornerstones of the PSI system.
authors.affiliation: Cardinal Health-MediQual, Marlborough, MA, USA. juliana.hart@cardinal.com
authors.forename: Juliana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hart
authors.forename: Geraldine
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Sweeney
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D019300:Medical Errors / Q000517:prevention & control; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D017751:Safety Management / Q000379:methods*; D014481:United States; D016270:United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality