title: Hospital patient safety levels among healthcare's "most wired" institutions.
abstract: Our study compared adverse patient safety events among hospitals that have received the distinction "Most Wired" as rated by the Hospital and Health Network publication versus comparison hospitals. Risk-adjusted Patient Safety Indicators (PSIs) were calculated for 558 general adult medical/surgical hospitals participating in the Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research's Nationwide Inpatient Sample. When compared using mean risk-adjusted PSI rates, no significant differences in performance for specific PSIs were observed between hospitals affiliated with the "Most Wired" label and those without the designation using objective measures of safety.
authors.affiliation: University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine and Medical Imformaticist, Children's Hospital of Alabama, USA. fyu@peds.uab.edu
authors.forename: Feliciano
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Nir
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Menachemi
authors.forename: Thomas K
authors.initials: TK
authors.lastname: Houston
mesh_terms: D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D006739:Hospital Administration; D006747:Hospital Communication Systems / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D017751:Safety Management / Q000592:standards*; D014481:United States